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CORONAVIRUS AND PRECAUTIONARY MEASUREMENTS TAKEN BY PATRON TO KEEP WORKPLACE SAFE AFTER COVID-19

Brief introduction of Coronavirus Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that causes upper respiratory tract infection, middle eastern respiratory syndrome, and severe acute respiratory syndrome in humans. COVID-19 (SARS_COV2) is a member of the Coronavirus family recently discovered in late December 2019 and is believed to be transmitted via a zoonotic transmission (animal to human). It is an infectious disease that spreads from person to person. The virus spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes and the droplets land on an unaffected person. It is also thought to be transmitted from unanimated objects.   COVID-19 affects the respiratory system causing upper and lower respiratory tract infection including fever, cough with productive mucous, dyspnea, work up breathing, In addition to severe cases it affects other organ systems including GI tract (nausea, vomiting), liver (hypoxic liver), heart (increased heart rate, decrease blood volume, increase vasodilation), kidneys