
Coronavirus 2020 – Helpful information for you to make the best of the current situation
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID -19) is a newly described viral disease not previously seen in humans. It is in the same family of viruses responsible for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. Coronavirus is part of a large family of viruses that originated in animals and spread to humans. The current disease emerged in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019 and has become a “pandemic”, defined as a disease that progresses to world-wide exposure.