Short Communication
Year: 2020 | Month: September | Volume: 10 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 264-273
COVID-19: Role of Epidemiologist in Public Health Emergency, India
IDeepanshu Sharma1, Shahzaad Hussain2, Azmi Rani3, Punit Jha4, Bhawna Sati5
1,2MPH Scholar, Department of Public Health, Maulana Azad University, Jodhpur, (JSPH), Rajasthan, India
3WHO Consultant, Polio Eradication Initiative Program, Afghanistan.
4MCH Consultant, UNICEF, Bijapur, Chhattisgarth, India.
5HOD, Department of Public Health (JSPH), Maulana Azad University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Corresponding Author: Bhawna Sati
ABSTRACT
COVID-2019 disease is also known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, Novel corona virus in December 2019 and has infected more than Twenty million people with over Eighty Thousand people who died of the pandemic till 25 August 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the corona virus outbreak (2019-20) as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30th January 2020 and a pandemic on 11th March 2020. Viruses can be prevented by adopting proper personal and respiratory system hygiene and maintaining a distance from society timely. Although doctors and nurses may be the front line and visible image of health care workers. In the ongoing fight against the virus, there are other health workers behind the scenes, such as Epidemiologists control the epidemic day and night Data and data are the focus of disease prevention and control. The epidemiologist / surveillance officer / doctor conducting the epidemiological investigation should close the case inquiry forms for all Covid-19 cases that meet the standard / surveillance case definition.
Key words: COVID-19, Epidemiologist, Outbreak.