WHO reminds: drinking increases the risk of contracting new coronavirus!

Recently, the World Health Organization  said that drinking alcohol will increase the risk of infection with the new crown virus(COVID-19), if you have already been infected, it will make the disease more serious, and recommended that leaders of governments around the world limit people's access to alcoholic beverages during the new crown epidemic blockade.

Studies have shown that alcohol consumption is linked to a number of infectious and non infectious diseases that may make a person more susceptible to the new coronavirus.

You need to understand the important facts about alcohol:

Harmful use of alcohol causes 3 million deaths worldwide each year, accounting for 5.3% of all deaths.

Harmful use of alcohol is a factor that causes more than 200 diseases and injuries.

Overall, the global burden of disease and injury caused by alcohol is 5.1% in disability adjusted life years.

Alcohol consumption can lead to death and disability at a relatively early stage of life. In the 20-39 age group, about 13.5% of all deaths were caused by alcohol.

Harmful use of alcohol has a causal relationship with a range of mental and behavioral disorders, other non communicable diseases, and injuries.

A causal relationship has been established between the incidence rate of infectious diseases such as harmful drinking and tuberculosis and the duration of HIV / AIDS.

In addition to the health consequences, harmful use of alcohol has brought a lot of social and economic losses to individuals and society as a whole.


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