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T.R.Malthus in his ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population ‘well explained the repercussion of increase in population 222 years ago in 1798(source-Web).The population increases in geometric progression and the food and consumables in arithmatic progression.If the population growth would not be checked,the nature tries to check it by natural calamities.Our era is witnessing many such calamities periodically.The most recent of which is Covid-19.
Entire world is facing the menace and media has only one burning topic CORONA
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A tiny organism that is obligate parasitic mode of nutrition made of nucleic acid and protein envelop has affected the biggest economy of world.The best way is to break the chain of transmission by not getting infected and by not infecting others.
Till the invention of new antivirus/vaccine against Novel Corona the humanity has following best options which is widely publicised in IEC materials:
1.Wearing nose mask to prevent droplet infection.
2.Clean /Sanitise your hands
3.Maintain social distance of more than Six Feet
We should take care of our fomites contamination also.Suppose you are wearing nose mask and periodically washing your hands.If any person carrying Corona Infection, Sneezes and contaminates your clothing or any article like your cellphone,laptop,book etc.Still you can carry the virus with you to your home and virus can infect you or your family members.Since virus outside the body is just a non living chemical.It can stay depending on environmental condition as such.So utmost care is needed while bringing any article in home.Whenever you go outside try to limit your exposure by social distancing and try to change your costume after going out and wash them in hotwater with some antiseptics.Whenever you see any person unknown,take universal precaution to protect yourselves.There is a chance of asymptomatic carrier of CORONA may infect you.That is why government has imposed lockdown to break the chain of transmission.
The lesson the world is learning about the hygiene after paying too much for CORONA.This reminds me about Cholera which is referred as father of Public Health.Diseases teach the world.This is called reactive learning.Japan excels in proactive learning.It does not require lockdown,since hygenic manners are interwoven in their culture.We will have to learn, though reactively after paying the price.
Corona Dashboard Indiahttp://www.covid19india.org To see the status for a particular state, click on the state.
Myth Buster :In mass screening infrared gun is used to check fever.It does not give information about Corona.Since this is a non contact thermometer,it is widely used without touching the person whose temperature is to be checked.
Precautions:1.Don’t visit hospital unnecessarily.If it is urgent cover your face with good quality mask and full sleeve clothes which should be washed after coming home.
2.Take care of your diet.It must have vitamins and minerals with adequate protein.
3.Try to take boiled lukewarm water.
4.Eat garlics daily to improve your disease resisting capacity.
5.Take at least eight hour sleep daily.
6.Do meditation/prayer to keep yourself spiritually healthy.
7.Take bath daily and wear washed and ironed clothes.
8.Do light excercise 30 minutes per day for at least 5 days per week.
9.Stop smoking.Since Covid-19 affects most commonly your respiratory system,it would be a double damage to your lungs,if you are smoker and got infected.
10 Alcohols 60% or more can be used as sanitizer but this does not mean that alcoholic has any benefit in drinking.Actually drinking reduces your immunity(disease resisting capacity of your body).So avoid drinking otherwise you have greater chance of severe infection.
11. 0.1 % Sodium hypochlorite can kill CoronaVirus in one minutes.This can be used to sanitize articles.
12.Door handles railings walls commonly touched at crowded places may be a source of infection.Keep in mind while visiting outside.You should also sanitize such areas periodically at your home.
13.Educate the kids about precautions.
14.Follow the advisories/guidelines released by government time to time.
15.Don’t spread information on social network which is malicious or misguiding.
16.Be a responsible citizen and contribute to humanity.
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