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In the current circumstances, when lakhs of people are dying as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, imposing lockdown and shutdown disrupts the socioeconomic conditions of the entire globe to the point that the country's backbone is compromised. A highly modified, effective sterilizing and disinfection system is essential to improve the country or human civilization. To combat the many adverse effects of radiation, not only on human health but also on the environment, ultra violet technology has been introduced. UV technology is also a source of radiation that has health risks;however, changes in wavelength can make the risk low. UVM-30A sensor module is used in the sanitization to detect UV irradiation in this study effort. An IoT-based system based on Arduino uno microcontroller, GSM A6 WiFi module, and UVM-30A is presented to create an automated implanted UV radiation detection device. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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Introduction: the virus is changing the world and human lives;medical education is not an exception for this. Anatomy as a medical subject is the substratum in the medical education, which helps the clinicians to prosper their clinical knowledge. The dissection of cadavers during anatomy teaching is a signature learning experience in medical education system. Whole medical education system including anatomical education been impacted by the Covid-19 because of unexpected sudden nation-wide lockdown. The digital switchover in teaching is the only option at present not only for Indian anatomists but throughout the world and was achieved with least delays. This transformation is not easy for students as well as for faculty. Each faculty was trying to deliver the subject knowledge to the pupils however learning anatomy on virtual platform is not an easy task. It has its own ineluctable glitches. In the present questionnaire based cross-sectional study, 93 out of 100 first year students of MBBS 2020-2021 batch (Institute of medical sciences, Banaras Hindu University) had participated. They reported, that their study been affected for 20 days on average. Out of 93 students, 34 students (37%) were not comfortable with online mode of teaching either due to poor internet connectivity or due to lack of good devices and due to unavailability of books and notes at home during lockdown. According to students, online learning mode of Anatomy is much difficult as compared to physical offline mode learning. Not only in anatomy, 69% students were also facing similar problem in learning the subject in biochemistry and physiology. 70% students reported uncertainty of concepts in online teaching, and fear of failure in exam because of not able to understand the certain topics in online teaching mode. © 2022 Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.. All rights reserved.
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The world is facing an unprecedented challenge of the 21st century in the form of COVID-19 outbreak. People across the culture, race, ethnicity, socio-economic background are being affected by the rippling effects of this pandemic. The aim of this narrative review is to briefly describe the impact of the pandemic on mental health, the vicious cycle of social issues and psychological health caused and aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. We also aim to highlight certain interventions to overcome the mental health challenges posed by the pandemic. For this purpose, a thorough search of all databases was done to gather articles relevant to the objective of this narrative review. Keywords were used in combination and separately to identify the articles on the various psychosocial issues caused by the pandemic. Published articles in various databases like Scopus, Web of Science, Pubmed etc., related to psychosocial effects due to COVID-19 were searched and summarized to justify and support the objective of this paper. The coming months will reveal the extent of damage this pandemic has caused to the socio-economic and health sectors across the globe. It is crucial to recognize the psychosocial impact of this pandemic and necessitate the measures to overcome them by mobilizing the resources we have at hand.
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India accompanies the world witnessing a rapidly spreading global pandemic of Covid-19. On 24 March, the Government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown that triggered the mass migration of daily wages workers back to their native states. Without prior testing for SARS-CoV-2, it imposed a new challenge towards the authorities to prevent the possible spread of infection. The study aims to determine the infection status of migrants who died in the jurisdiction of Varanasi district during their journey and the possible risk of spread of Covid-19 to frontline workers. The study was conducted between 24 March 2020 and 10 July 2020. A total of 6 cases came to our department who died during travel. The nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs were taken after the body arrived in the mortuary and sent for detection of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR method to the Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), Department of Microbiology of our Institute. A total of six cases were included in this study, of which 3 were positive for SARS-CoV-2 while others were negative. None of them had symptoms of Covid-19 infection, such as respiratory difficulties, sore throat or fever. The guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were limited in scope to hospital deaths and lacked guidelines to be followed by police personnel while investigating unnatural deaths. This brings the police personnel at risk of contracting Covid-19 infection as the cases are getting tested after the arrival at mortuary. The only way of protection is prevention, which mandates laying down the guidelines at the earliest. © 2021, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications. All rights reserved.