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Mutation in viruses is known to be an unavoidable phenomenon. But at times, it may become a life-threatening pandemic just like in the case of the 2019 novel coronavirus, formally named as SARS-CoV-2, which consumed around 36,405 lives out of 750,890 infections as per the data available with the World Health Organization as of the end of March 2020. Found to be from the family of earlier known outbreaks (SARS and MERS) of the twenty-first century, it has now become a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Countries around the world have spent millions of dollars to get a positive sign of finding vaccines, but still it remains an unsolved mystery. Even though there is implementation of strict lockdown measures from several affected countries around the globe, the trend line of COVID-19 epidemic is still increasing exponentially. Being in this scenario, this paper deals about the outbreak of 2019-nCoV and its structure, growing stages, global statistics, transmission modes, and most possible precautionary methods and also its emphasis on creating public awareness by answering few key clarifications about novel beta coronavirus disease. The machine learning method used in this study was taught using records from COVID-positive tests. Results from a week were included in the testing set (individuals who were confirmed to have COVID-19). This proposed model predicted the COVID-19 lab findings with high accuracy by only using eight numeric data, age 60, knowing contact with an infected individual, and the existence of five early clinical signs. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
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Achieving food security for all has long been a major objective in public policy around the world, and even globally as enshrined in the contemporary UN Sustainable Development Goals. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 creates additional challenges to food policy-makers and the paper charts some key elements of response to these challenges.
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COVID-19 lockdown restricted movement throughout the world. The whole world was quarantined and a large number of populations faced stressful situations in other aspects of daily life such as unexpected economic downturn, the higher burden on non-communicable diseases, lifestyle changes, various mental health issues, etc. There was a need for innovative and unique solutions to help and address the critical shortage of healthcare providers not only for those who were infected with COVID-19 but also for those who may require medical attention. During this critical situation, telemedicine services resurfaced and become an asset, with greater importance to the health-care delivery spectrum. The rate at which implementation of telemedicine services are occurring throughout the world, it becomes necessary for the organizations to understand the needs of the people who opt for such services. While several healthcare providers and systems have turned to telemedicine to maintain contact with their regular patients to minimize their risks of direct contact, the rate of adoption of this technology among patients hitherto accustomed to face-to-face consultation is uncertain, particularly in developing countries like India. The adoption can be measured with help of five variables i.e. Availability, Affordability, Accessibility, Accommodation, and Acceptability. Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study is to analyze impact of COVID-19 pandemic on telemedicine services provided post onset of pandemic in the year 2020. The study intends to evaluate these changes with help of five dimension of healthcare access to namely Affordability, Availability Accessibility, Accommodation and Acceptability and how the telemedicine services have been in use to provide the remote healthcare to the patients in need during this period. 5A's of Telemedicine will be assessed thoroughly based upon the set parameters and from the perspective of end user of the telemedicine i.e. patients, with the help of structuredquestionnaire.The study, therefore, attempts to evaluate the 5A's of telemedicine from the patient perspective during the pandemicperiod. Result: Majority of the respondents either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed all the 5A of telemedicine has improved during this pandemic. Conclusion: Affordability of telemedicine has improved post pandemic and has become cost effective owing to reduction in travel and reimbursement for telemedicine consultation. In case of availability of telemedicine has improved with respective to specialty consultations and more hospitals have opened telemedicine post pandemic in order to keep up with their foot fall and revenue. Accommodation with respect to languages, user friendly apps has been found very useful during pandemic. Accessibility has seen tremendous improvement due to the availability of smart phones and hi-speed internet. Finally, all the above factors have helped to improve the acceptability of telemedicine during this pandemic situation.