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Introduction: COVID-19 is a potential public health concern which was identified and declared as public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation. Objective: To assess the knowledge and standard COVID-19 preventive practicing methods followed during pandemic among adolescents in the urban areas of Chengalpattu district. Methods: A Community based cross-sectional study was conducted among the adolescents (10 years to 19 years) in urban field practising areas of a tertiary care private hospital during the second COVID wave. Data were collected through simple random sampling technique from 170 adolescents in the sampled households through face-to-face interview of respondents. Statistical analysis done using institutional licensed IBM-SPSS version 21.0 software. Results: Majority of the study participants 53.5% were between the ages of 15 and 19. Of the participants, 52.4% were perusing their higher/ higher secondary education. Female respondents were 51.8% in the present study. 67% had good knowledge regarding the corona virus and 82% had good COVID-19 preventive practice during the pandemic. Conclusion: Lack of equivalent knowledge emphasises the need of educating the younger community about the novel virus. Appropriate measures to improve COVID-19 knowledge should be taken by relevant stakeholders in view of yielding equilibrium between preventive practice and knowledge so that the disease will be eradicated in near future. Copyright (c) 2022: Author(s).
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Covid-19 is a pandemic disease that is affecting people all over the world. The Novel Corona virus spreads mostly through human contact, which includes coughing, sneezing, and even coming into contact with materials used by an infected person. Hence this paper presents a solar powered kiosk for contactless temperature sensor for human and automatic hand sanitizer dispenser with flip gates to monitor and control the spread of covid-19 disease. The main aim is to aid in the prevention and control of corona virus infection, as well as to maintain and improve community health by lowering the infection's detrimental impact on the economy and society. The paper presents the design and development of a kiosk that helps in screening human body temperature and dispense the hand sanitizer with automatic opening of flip gates upon the temperature of human in kiosk is under limits. The temperature of human body is sensed automatically with the help of sensor placed in the kiosk and the dispenser will dispense the sanitizer when the person keeps his/her hand under the dispenser. Once, these two task completes, a flip gate will open automatically, which helps people to come out of the kiosk. A 10 Watt solar PV (Photovoltaic) placed on the roof of the kiosk is used to power up the kiosk. An Arduino Uno is used to control the operations of various actuators used in the system. The kiosk is portable and can be placed at the entrance of malls, offices, educational institute and etc. © 2021 IEEE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown - often regarded as a "Global Human Confinement Experiment"- has created an unprecedented situation around the globe. While the reduced human presence and mobility, causing declines in visitation rates of protected areas, may generally favour biodiversity conservation in natural ecosystems, the pandemic has caused major disruptions of the food supply chain. Furthermore, the "reverse migration"of labour has led to scarcity of workforce in many localities hitting agricultural operations. The cumulative effect is food insecurity for millions of people in both the developed and developing countries. It is therefore crucial to encourage local food production systems at the household and community levels. Tropical homegardens, which are resilient and sustainable production systems, are important in this respect. Homegardening is a unique farming system, which combines divergent production and service functions around the homesteads and contribute to the supply of fresh food at the household level. Being a decentralized production system, such practices may reduce food wastage along the supply chain. A prominent structural attribute of homegardens is the great diversity of species ranging from creeping herbs to tall trees and livestock, implying their potential for biodiversity conservation. Although land-use systems are challenged as never before in the wake of the pandemic, homegardening may provide a way forward to overcome the looming food insecurity at the household level in the rural areas of many countries. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.