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What is COVID-19?

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Date 2020-03-04 Readnum 2107
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Q1. What kind of virus is coronavirus?
The coronavirus can spread to animals and people, 6 types of which can spread to humans.

4 types cause diseases such as colds, while the other 2 types are known as MERS and SARS. COVID-19 was found to match 89.1% of SARS-like viruses.

Q2. How does COVID-19 spread?
The transmission route of COVID-19 is contact with spray(droplets) and respiratory secretions(runny nose, phlegm, etc.).

Q3. How long can COVID-19 survive?
Generally, viruses die when they fall from a living host. The common virus survives for up to 2 hours in saliva-like secretions and then dies. 

COVID-19 can live in a bed, door, etc. for several days, but no cases of transmission through the environment have been reported.

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