COVID-19 VS MERS VS SARS
By Phartoonz
Updated 1 min read
This information is updated on 31 Jan 2020 regarding COVID-19
| What’s up? | COVID-19 (2019-novel coronavirus) |
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) |
Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Reported | December 2019 in Wuhan, China | 2012 in Saudi Arabia | 2002 in Southern China |
| How it started? | Unconfirmed. But most likely from touching/eating an infected animal. |
Touching, eating the meat or drinking milk of infected camels. | Believed to have started from bats which infected civets. |
| How it spreads? | Through close contact between human to human. | Limited transmission between humans through close contact. | Transmitted mainly between humans through close contact. |
| Confirmed Cases | 9831 (as of 31 January 2020) |
2,494 (as of 30 November 2019) |
8,098 |
| Death Cases | 213 (as of 31 January 2020) |
858 | 774 |
| Mortality rate | 2.17% | 34.4% | 9.56% |
| Estimated losses on the economy | China has extended S$13.2 billion to fight COVID-19 | S$3.53 billion in tourism loss for South Korea | In six months, SARS cost the world S$54.3 billion |
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