Tackling Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Nonpharmaceutical Interventions

ABSTRACT

Transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is attributed to direct or indirect unguarded contact with infected subjects or inanimate objects. Currently only supportive treatment is available and disease-specific medication or vaccines are yet to be implemented. In such a critical situation, the only choice left is to control the rapid dissemination of the disease through government-enforced strategies and self-imposed precautionary measures across all the afflicted countries around the world. In this chapter, we have appraised in detail the different nonpharmaceutical interventions adapted by government, common people, and health workers to prevent disease spread from one person to another and from one place to another. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.