Second Quarter of 2020 ~ A Retrospective: A Virus so Powerful They Gave It A Crown
How it started On top of the national political turmoil, the happenings on the second quarter of 2020 was something that we never imagined of except in the movie. Who would have thought that the whole world would be shaken and stood almost completely still because of a virus! Yep, the Coronaviruses (65–125 nm in diameter) had cause nothing but chaos since the first outbreak was reported sometime in December last year. The case was first discovered in Wuhan, China (well at least it was what the scientists believed to be) and within a short period of time, it has become a major outbreak. Despite of it becoming a pandemic, the virus itself was not entirely new. The earliest reported case was in the late 1920s and human coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s. It was interesting to know that the scientists named it ‘Corona’ which is Latin for crown because of its spiky surface. When we first heard about the case, we said to ourselves, “Wow, that’s bad”. But that was it.