Chances Of Curing Corona Virus

Illustrated photo (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The spread of the corona virus centered in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in recent weeks has become terror. Because, apart from the absence of a vaccine, this virus has caused hundreds of deaths. So, can the 2019-NovCov virus infection actually be cured?

To VOI, Tropical Diseases and Infection Expert from Ciptomangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM), Dr. Erni Juwita Nelwan, SpPD, PhD explained that the corona virus is self-supporting or disappears by itself. So, those infected with this disease certainly have the opportunity to live healthy again.

"The principle is that the virus infection is self-sustaining or can heal itself in three days on average," said Erni when we contacted her via text message, Thursday, January 30, adding that to deal with this virus, one must also have a strong immune system.

He also considered that the chance for this virus to be cured is also quite large considering that of the thousands of sufferers, not all of them died. "Those who confirm that they are sick are not all dead. That means, there are those who are cured and of course," he said.

In the treatment, according to Erni, doctors will provide medicines according to the disease suffered by the patient. It is known that those who are exposed to the corona virus will usually experience cough, fever and sore throat symptoms just like people with the flu in general.

Apart from depending on the condition of the sufferer's immune system, corona virus drugs are also needed to support the healing of the victims. It's just that, until now, there is no such drug.

"Viral drugs speed up this process so that the disease process does not get worse or there are complications when the patient's immune condition is weak. For example, over 60 years of age, diabetes, heart disease, and others," he explained.

Death was triggered by complications

Apart from Erni, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Solo State University (UNS), Dr. Reviono, dr., Sp.P (K) also stated that this virus can be cured. The proof, said Reviono, was that 80 percent of Wuhan City residents who were exposed to this virus could recover because they did not contract other complications and were relatively young.

He considered, the human body can actually fight this virus like when the body fights the flu virus. "There is interferon in our bodies in the form of natural proteins which are produced in response to fighting harmful compounds, such as viruses. If there is enough interferon production, viral infections can be controlled and killed," he said as quoted from the official UNS page.

However, different things actually happen to people with the corona virus who are in old age. According to Reviono, if this virus enters the body of the elderly, complications will occur. In addition, their body's ability to fight this virus is slower due to insufficient interferon in the body.

From the data compiled from the gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com site, it shows that the spread of the corona virus on Wednesday January 29 at 14.30 WIB has reached 20 countries.

The details, China with the findings of 6,070 cases, Hong Kong with ten cases, Thailand with 14 cases and Taiwan with eight cases. In addition, Macau, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore each had six cases.

Australia, France and Germany five cases. Germany, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates four cases. Canada and Vietnam two cases. Finally Cambodia, Finland, Nepal and Sri Lanka were one case. Referring to the same data source, the corona virus has killed 170 people, of which all deaths have occurred in China and the number of those who have been cured has reached 133.

In Indonesia, the authorities have yet to find a single case in Indonesia. Even so, precautionary steps have been taken by increasing surveillance at airport gates, issuing travel warnings to China, and utilizing evacuation capsules.

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