Coping with COVID Crisis

Emergence of the deadly corona virus infection took place in Wuhan in China in December last year. It soon spread to all countries and became a pandemic. India’s first case of COVID 19 was confirmed in Kerala’s Thrissur district on 30 January 2020. Ever since, our lives have changed and we are facing numerous difficulties. This editorial will take you through these difficulties faced by us at practice and in life in general. It presents a brief account of the impact of COVID 19 on functioning of this journal. We have compiled quality articles on COVID in a special section of this issue. This editorial also presents the highlights of these articles along with editorial comments. It contains lessons learned from original research on 141 covid positive pregnant women. It also covers issues faced by obstetricians like taking informed consent, lactation management, and safety of computed tomography imaging in pregnancy and newly introduced rapid testing strategies. It delves into the most sensitive issue of mental health of health care workers, economic crisis and takes a look at the way forward. We sincerely hope that this editorial is useful to our readers in their practice to cope up with this unforeseen crisis situation.