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Sunday 08 November 2020
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Books – Sayed Metwally
After the new Corona virus has become a threat threatening the whole world about 11 months ago after its appearance, all of us are looking forward to knowing what happens every minute, in light of the tremendous development that Covid-19 has brought in our lives.
Within this framework, “Masrawy” provides a daily service that includes displaying everything you want to know about the latest developments in the emerging corona virus, from the emergence of new symptoms or the occurrence of a different mutation, as well as the development of vaccines and drugs, in brief.
Teachers are no more likely to be injured
A British study found that teachers in schools and universities are not more likely to contract Corona virus than other employees of other professions.
According to the official study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in Britain, there is no difference in the risk between teachers and other employees regarding infection with Covid-19, as reported by the British newspaper The Daily Mail.
In their sample, they found that nursing teachers had the highest rate, at 0.45 percent of all teachers in the sector surveyed, followed by university lecturers, 0.41 percent, and secondary school teachers, 0.38 percent (0.15 to 0.78), and primary school teachers scored the lowest. Rate, reaching 0.23 percent, and in other professions, 0.44 percent of those surveyed tested positive for Covid-19.
A treatment that helps patients recover
American doctors have found that some types of inflammatory bowel diseases are linked to the same enzyme that the emerging corona virus uses to enter the body’s cells.
According to the results of a study, published in the journal Gastroenterology, that drug therapy used to treat inflammatory bowel, in some cases, helps to recover from Covid-19.
The study indicated that the gene expression of the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is carried out in most tissues, and it plays an important role in heart function, activates the hormone that regulates blood pressure, and participates in the transport of amino acids in the intestine, but this enzyme It becomes dangerous when a person is infected with Corona, because the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds with ACE2, and uses it to infect cells and infect them, according to Russia Today.
Some symptoms change with the second wave
Denis Protzenko, chief physician at the “Komunarca” Hospital in Moscow, indicated that the basic symptoms of “Covid-19”, caused by the emerging corona virus, have witnessed a certain change with the second wave of the epidemic.
Protenko said that those infected at this time often suffer from a fever and a temperature (above 38 degrees) that cannot be reduced by reducers, and he also pointed to shortness of breath (28 contractions or more per minute), and there is a third symptom or indicator, which is the level of oxygen saturation of the blood, indicating That its deficiency leads to serious consequences, according to Russia Today.
How to reduce the risk of injury
The well-known Russian doctor, Alexander Miasnikov, described several methods that allow to reduce the risk of infection with the emerging corona virus.
According to him, the vast majority of people at risk of contracting this disease are overweight, and they need to lose 10-15 kilograms of their weight, as Miasnikov advised, to exercise daily, and stressed that muscular effort stimulates and strengthens the body’s immunity a lot, according to what The website “Russia Today” reported.
The doctor also advised to strengthen the body and control chronic diseases (if any) because they are “always complicit with the virus”, adhere to the rules of public health and personal hygiene, and avoid crowded places.
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