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As the Coronavirus carry on to impact the world and make the news, a plethora of untruth has surrounded the topic. With a variety of platforms and ways, there’s a lot of information been thrown about  COVID-19 , the disease caused by the new Coronavirus with news, articles and social media posts. So, it becomes of utmost importance to know what’s true and what’s not in this relentless flood of information as during a significant outbreak,rumours and misinformation can be dangerous. The new coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-2, a virus originating in Wuhan, China has spread all over the world except Antarctica. The  World Health Organization  (WHO) officially changed the status of this virus from a public health emergency of international concern to a ‘pandemic’ on March 11. To this date, this family of coronavirus – currently “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.” Or SARS-CoV-2, is responsible for over 2.71M infections worldwide, causing more than 191K d...

As the world was preparing to celebrate the passing of 2019 and welcoming 2020, just before the toasts and countdowns were to begin, the decade’s most consequential development of all broke the surface. On 31 st  December, a Chinese Government website declared the detection of a “pneumonia of unknown cause” in the area neighbouring the South China seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, a city consisting of 11 million people. In the next three months after the announcement about the unknown virus, the world has been plunged into chaos. Soon the virus was determined to be a part of the coronavirus family, an all-new strain named  COVID-19 . No treatment or cure is discovered yet and after being declared as a pandemic, the virus froze international travel, extinguished economic activities and confined humanity to their homes, infecting more than a million people, with the stats rising every day. Till date, the  COVID-19  has claimed more than 95,000 deaths worldwide in ...