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Introduction: To statistically compare the trends of epidemiological indicators of COVID-19 in India with Italy, the UK, and the US. Methodology: In this descriptive analysis, epidemiological indicators were calculated and their trends were plotted and compared statistically. Regression analysis was done to predict the fatalities. Results: The trends of total and active cases per million populations are rising in India and US, while Italy has achieved the plateau in the total cases per million populations, and active cases have been sharply declining with time. The UK is about to achieve the same. India has remained far behind the other three countries in the number of tests per million populations (p < 0.05). In the initial phase, the test positivity rate of India was quite lower but has overtaken Italy and UK. India has always reported a higher recovery rate than US and lower than Italy. CFRs have achieved a plateau in Italy and UK, in US it is declining, while it remained almost constant in India throughout the pandemic. Testing was a significant covariate in predicting the fatalities. Conclusions: India was able to manage the initial phase of this pandemic due to early and strict government interventions and strong public health responses.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost all companies and people across all sectors. Working from home (WFH) has become the new norm in many countries and companies since the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a growing trend around the globe for having more people working from home, particularly in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present review-based paper is mainly collected from important databases like Scopus and Web of Science from the years 2020, 2021, and 2022. The main aim of this paper is to understand the concept of Working from home and to study various Working from home (WFH) associated opportunities and challenges during the period of pandemic. Increased work productivity, increased job satisfaction, and greater flexibility were some of the opportunities whereas increased levels of stress, longer working hours, and lack of designated office space were foundsome challenges related to Working from home (WFH) during the pandemic. Despite many challenges and operational difficulties in WFH, many organizations are still positive and developing a new hybrid model which provides high employee productivity and also provides an effective way to deal with future uncertainties or pandemic-like crises.Mindfulness, proper designated office space at home, and Organisation based supportive policies were some of the main recommendations given for employees' better productivity and work-life balance. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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Introduction: To statistically compare the trends of epidemiological indicators of COVID-19 in India with Italy, the UK, and the US. Methodology: In this descriptive analysis, epidemiological indicators were calculated and their trends were plotted and compared statistically. Regression analysis was done to predict the fatalities. Results: The trends of total and active cases per million populations are rising in India and US, while Italy has achieved the plateau in the total cases per million populations, and active cases have been sharply declining with time. The UK is about to achieve the same. India has remained far behind the other three countries in the number of tests per million populations (p<0.05). In the initial phase, the test positivity rate of India was quite lower but has overtaken Italy and UK. India has always reported a higher recovery rate than US and lower than Italy. CFRs have achieved a plateau in Italy and UK, in US it is declining, while it remained almost constant in India throughout the pandemic. Testing was a significant covariate in predicting the fatalities. Conclusions: India was able to manage the initial phase of this pandemic due to early and strict government interventions and strong public health responses. @ 2022 The Journal retains the copyrights of this article.
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Presently, the discovery of COVID infection 2019 (Coronavirus) is one of the fundamental difficulties on the planet, given the fast spread of the illness. Ongoing insights show that the quantity of individuals determined to have Coronavirus is expanding dramatically, with more than 1.6 million affirmed cases;the sickness is spreading to numerous nations across the world. In this investigation, we dissect the frequency of Coronavirus appropriation across the world. We present a computerized reasoning strategy dependent on a profound convolutional neural organization (CNN) to distinguish COVID-19 patients utilizing genuine world datasets. Our framework inspects chest X-beam pictures to recognize such patients. Our discoveries demonstrate that such an investigation is important in Coronavirus conclusion as X-beams are helpfully accessible rapidly and at low expenses. Experimental discoveries acquired from 1000 X-beam pictures of genuine patients affirmed that our proposed framework is valuable in recognizing Coronavirus and accomplishes a F-measure scope of 95–99%. Our proposed framework can essentially help distinguish the most tainted urban communities, and it has uncovered that waterfront territories are intensely affected by the Coronavirus spread as the quantity of cases is fundamentally higher in those regions than in non-seaside zone. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Objectives: COVID-19 pandemic has created havoc in every sphere of life and medical education is no exception. To overcome crisis of this pandemic, currently, there is an entire shift in teaching in medical colleges from face-to-face classes to online classes. Virtual teaching requires both technical and pedagogical support and the present study was carried out to assess the perception of medical teachers about this change in medical education. Methods: This analytical, observational, online, and cross-sectional study used newly developed questionnaire that was given to teachers of medical colleges of North India during lockdown period. Answers for the items were read on a five-point Likert-type scale and data was analysed using Descriptive statistics and t-test. Results: A total of 131 participants filled the questionnaire. Out of these 70 (53.4%) were females and 61 (46.6%) were males. Many teachers (33.6%) found online tools to be easier to use and (35.1%) participants were of opinion of possessing sufficient knowledge and skills for conducting online classes but 44.3% of participants want to undergo training for this purpose. Majority of educators (67.2%) did not want to take online classes along with face-to-face classes after COVID pandemic time. Conclusion: Online teaching in medical education is still relatively new but this crisis should be taken as opportunity to explore the potential of online platforms and should enhance technological knowledge for the benefit of future budding doctors.
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Objective: The sudden emergence of wide spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to adoption of physical distancing or lockdown all over the globe to curtail the viral transmission. Although lockdown plays an important role, at the same time, it can adversely affect the psychological health of the population. In addition, because of stay at home order, people are more inclined to use the media which can further aggravate the mental health issues in population. This study was planned to study the perceived psychological issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Methods: An online social survey was conducted using semi-structured questionnaire, participants were added through snowball sampling technique. Results: A total of 455 people (264 females and 191 males) participated in the study. Majority of participants 228 (50.1%) felt stressed out during coronavirus lockdown period. Female gender was associated with greater negative psychological impact of lockdown. Most participants 263 (57.8%) were worried about the health of the loved ones. Most of the participants tried to seek information from different media. The difference between the stress level was highly significant (p=0.04639∗) between the participants depending on the duration for which they explore the information on different media. Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic was associated with stress in the majority of people in our sample, and media has a role to modulate the psychological impact of this lockdown. As COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, we need to verify these findings on larger population and policy-makers need to strengthen our mental health programs to mitigate the psychological impact of this pandemic.
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The present global scenario of a pandemic has affected the human race as a whole and still continues to create unrest among all segments of the society, be it those from the economically weaker background or the affluent part of the society. When the entire human race is dealing with such a scenario, it is known that anxiety and fear among the masses grow due to lack of knowledge and lack of preparedness of healthcare infrastructure. Through this article, I want to highlight the effects of such an unexpected mass event and particu-larly throw light on its effects on the mental well-being of individuals. It also aims to showcase the gravity of the issues related to mental health and how the number of people affected is exponentially increasing. The article will also dis-cuss various coping mechanisms and ways to deal with stress, anxiety etc., to keep us mentally healthy and also suggest methods to promote mental health, thus creating a positive environment during such times of crisis. Thus it is safe to say that mental health is as important if not more important than physical health. A person is said to be COVID-19 positive when the person tests positive in an RT-PCR test. A CT Chest has proved to be helpful in judging the risk of complications. Imaging reveals non-specific changes like that of pneumonia. As of now, there is no definitive therapy for Covid-19, although a few drugs like dexamethasone have proved to reduce the severity of the disease.