Published on September 2020 | Public Health

COVID-19: Role of Epidemiologist in Public Health Emergency, India

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