Publication: Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Social Distancing, Isolation and Quarantine are Key Success Factors of Nepal’s Public Health Practices or Something Else?
Date
2020
Authors
Article Type
Review Article
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
1812-2027
Volume Title
Pages
Pages: 68 - 74
Publisher
Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease similar form of
pneumonia/ SARS-CoV-2- impacting deadly globally.
The main objective of this article is to analyze the studies and gather of the current
information aimed at COVID-19 and analyze the situation of Nepal. We summarized
the published articles from the web pages, Journals, Google search engine.
It is declared as a public health emergency. However, why COVID-19 does not register
in developing counties (Nepal) rather than China, Europe and North America it is
unknown. Nepal has lower experiences of the COVID-19 where only 49 death cases
registered and total cases 19,237 cases throughout the country (till 08/1/2020).
Nepalese health services need to maintain up than today and follow lockdown,
isolation, social distance and an advance screening test kit around the country.
KEY WORDS
COVID-19, Pandemic, Social isolation
Description
Pathak KP,1 Gaire T,2 Acharya D3
1Nepal Open University, Nepal.
2Innovative College of Health Science,
Kathmandu, Nepal.
3Bhairahawa Multiple Campus,
Lumbini, Nepal
Keywords
COVID-19, Pandemic, Social isolation