Dr. Prajjwal Pyakurel (Assistant Professor, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, BPKIHS, Nepal)

1. The recent work published by Imperial College of London has highlighted that social distancing be   maintained for 18 months or more until the vaccine is developed in order to mitigate the true effect of coronavirus. Is this possible?

2. This year coronavirus is the deadliest respiratory coronavirus after Spanish flu seen in 1918 which has killed approximately 50 million people.

3. Coronavirus lockdown has helped to reduce pollutions which has a positive effect in environment, aquatic animals, flora and fauna. This has given ideas for future work for scientist in order to mitigate the effect of climate change although lockdown is not the solutions.

4. There has been buzz going around the world that coronavirus is self-created. We can argue on this statement for hours and hours. However, virus also mutates itself. Occasionally, outbreak occurs when virus in animals and birds changes their structure and enter human body. Coronavirus may have originated in this fashion.

5.During coronavirus pandemic we are wearing mask and moving around. But the surgical mask we use may not be protective as it doesn’t tightly cover mouth and nose and the tiny infected droplets enters nose, mouth and eyes. Mask should be used by those people who have respiratory illness and can transmit infection to others.