The eerie silence has now become unbearable as skies look sad, streets are deserted , roads and railway lines stare at you . Almost everything including time is at standstill the world over. We have been forced to stay at home. Its "Co-Rona" everywhere including on news channel.
Why? Because just a tiniest microscopical virus has made the "all powerful" human subservient to it. Poor mankind.Till the other day was roaring with its nuclear power threatening to destroy each-other. As I wrote earlier, all our nuclear might, advanced science and technology as of now can't stop coronavirus from killing people mercilessly. More than 60,000 of us all over the world have been swallowed by this tiniest virus.
And we the superpower are just helpless. Even can't use our nuclear and chemical weapons to even scare out this tiniest virus.
And what remedy we have to fight this deadly virus? Just wash your hand repeatedly for more than 20 seconds and lock yourself in a room like a coward. No medicine or vaccine has been found as yet. Vaccine to reach market wlll take at least a year and till that time we are at the mercy of God.
Remember coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1930s when an acute respiratory infection of domesticated chickens was shown to be caused by infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). In the 1940s, two more animal coronaviruses, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), were isolated. And Human coronaviruses were discovered as early as in the 1960s.The earliest ones studied were from human patients with the common cold, which were later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus Other human coronaviruses have since been identified, including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections.
Despite all this we have not taken this tiniest seriously until it first attacked in November. The first case of deadly coronavirus was reported on 7 November 2019 in China but health authorities found it a case of "pneumonia. It was only on 8th January that scientists in China announced the discovery of a new coronavirus. So for about two months, world didn't know about outbreak of deadly coronavirus. By that time, it had spread the world over including India.
On the same day South Korea also reported the first possible case of virus coming from China. A 36-year-old Chinese woman was put under isolated treatment amid concerns that she had brought back a form of viral pneumonia that had sickened dozens in mainland China and Hong Kong in the previous weeks.
And since then the deadly virus has gripped the entire world firmly and even mightiest of all America is helpless in fighting the virus. All its nuclear, technological and financial might are of no help to save its people from coronavi rus.
And here is a good news that Dhauladhar mountain ranges, a part of the Himalayan range in Himachal Pradesh can now be seen from Jalandhar, a city in Punjab.It was possible as the lockdown has cleaned the air. God has warned us. Need to take warning seriously Good Luck.
(Chander Sharma)