Abstract

The pandemic caused due to the novel corona virus has halted the world. In the late months of 2019 few cases of severe pneumonia has been reported in Wuhan in China. Studies revealed it to be caused due to a virus, which is novel and temporarily named as acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. This unexpected outbreak of the pandemic has shaken the entire part of the human population, business, and industries, factories without any difference between rich or poor. This has essentially compartmentalized or categorized the human mankind into immune or healthy ones, susceptible, infected and recovered classes. The non-pharmaceutical intervention to control over the spreading of the contagious disease like lockdown, washing hands, masks and social distancing have made a great control over this disease. The purpose of this review is to quantify how much these non-pharmaceutical intervention has reigned the virus spread.

Keywords: COVID-19; Lockdown; Virus; SARS-CoV-2

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Citation

Citation: Asha PK. “An Understanding about COVID-19 during the Days of Lockdown".Acta Scientific Pharmacology 1.9 (2020): 21-24.

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Copyright: © 2020 Asha PK. 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.