The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), which is a rapidly spreading respiratory illness, is caused with the infection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) [1]. Since the first emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan city (Hubei province, China) in December 2019, globally 2,164,111 confirmed cases have been registered, and 146,198 have been deceased, as of April 19, 2020, till to submit this paper [2]. The trend of infection with emergence of new cases is accelerating day-by-day, around the world, in 211 countries, areas or, territories from all six regions of the WHO (World Health Organization).

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Citation

Citation: Shyamapada Mandal and Manisha Mandal. “Quarantining, Social Distancing and Face Mask Wearing of People during COVID-19 Pandemic: Which are Feasible?".Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.5 (2020): 104-105.

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Copyright: © 2020 Shyamapada Mandal and Manisha Mandal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.