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Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review
The outbreak of COVID- 19 disease has taken the world by surprise. The disease mainly affects the respiratory system and is caused by a strain of coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2. Due to its high recombination rates the virus has an immense potential to spread rapidly. Within months of the first case be...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110781 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_785_20 |
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author | Patel, Aditya Patel, Shraddha Fulzele, Punit Mohod, Swapnil Chhabra, Kumar Gaurav |
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description | The outbreak of COVID- 19 disease has taken the world by surprise. The disease mainly affects the respiratory system and is caused by a strain of coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2. Due to its high recombination rates the virus has an immense potential to spread rapidly. Within months of the first case being reported in Wuhan China, the disease has turned rapidly into a pandemic. The world health experts are already actively looking for a definite cure or vaccine for the disease, but till that many of the countries across the globe are looking up onto mass quarantine measures as a method to control its spread. This article is an attempt to review the effectiveness of these measures and the possible adverse effects of the same. Other possible modes of prevention and controlling the spread of the disease have also been reviewed in the article. |
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spelling | pubmed-75865672020-10-26 Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review Patel, Aditya Patel, Shraddha Fulzele, Punit Mohod, Swapnil Chhabra, Kumar Gaurav J Family Med Prim Care Review Article The outbreak of COVID- 19 disease has taken the world by surprise. The disease mainly affects the respiratory system and is caused by a strain of coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2. Due to its high recombination rates the virus has an immense potential to spread rapidly. Within months of the first case being reported in Wuhan China, the disease has turned rapidly into a pandemic. The world health experts are already actively looking for a definite cure or vaccine for the disease, but till that many of the countries across the globe are looking up onto mass quarantine measures as a method to control its spread. This article is an attempt to review the effectiveness of these measures and the possible adverse effects of the same. Other possible modes of prevention and controlling the spread of the disease have also been reviewed in the article. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586567/ /pubmed/33110781 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_785_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Patel, Aditya Patel, Shraddha Fulzele, Punit Mohod, Swapnil Chhabra, Kumar Gaurav Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title | Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title_full | Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title_fullStr | Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title_full_unstemmed | Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title_short | Quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of COVID19? A review |
title_sort | quarantine an effective mode for control of the spread of covid19? a review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110781 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_785_20 |
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