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   Do you remember many people said “Happy new year, I hope this new decade will bring us health, luck, and peace.” on 31 December 2019? However, the new decade has started with lots of disasters such as forest fires and viruses. Here is the main list for what happened in 2020’s first period: 1- Forest Fires:     In Australia, one of the most dangerous forest fire has happened in December 2019. It was really hard to deal with because of the strong winds. 18.6 million hectares of forest wiped out and several cute animals died. Approximately 450 people were killed to this natural disaster. Moreover, in Arizona, 42,492  hectares of forest and in India, 51,430 hectares of nature destroyed. Unfortunately, humans, animal habitats, animal species, and vegetations were also killed. 2- Floods:    In Indonesia, the floods destroyed Jakarta that is the centre of Indonesia and nearby areas. Heavy rains caused by this terribl...

    This new decade started with lots of disasters such as huge forest fires in Australia and Ukraine, strong earthquakes and more like this. However, a disaster certainly is the worst in 2020 that is SARS-CoV-2 (also known as COVID-19)    COVID-19 is part of the virus family. There are several parts of viruses with this family like SARS and MERS. In 2002-2003, SARS appeared in the world. It infected 8.000 people and killed 800 people. In 2012, MERS appeared like SARS worldwide. It infected 2500 people and killed 900 people.    COVID-19 is a developed version of other old viruses. General idea is that this virus appeared in a wet market in Wuhan with pangolins and bats. Unlike others, it spreads fast and it has 3 types of unusual proteins; Spikes (S) protein, Membrane (M) protein, and Envelope (E) protein. Spikes are really important for this virus because they are used as a key to get inside a cell in our body.       When it g...