Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF QUARANTINE DURING DISEASE OUTBREAKS
Author(s) -
Priyanka Sekar,
Monisha Mohan,
Kalaiselvi Rajendiran,
Ananda Vayaravel Cassinadane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal for innovative engineering and management research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-5083
DOI - 10.48047/ijiemr/v09/i12/106
Subject(s) - quarantine , outbreak , pandemic , public health , covid-19 , china , population , intervention (counseling) , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , global health , disease , medical emergency , geography , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychiatry , nursing , archaeology , pathology , engineering , electrical engineering
The world is now facing the largest global healthemergency. The initial outbreak of novel corona virus(Covid -19) has emerged in Wuhan, China (1). WHOdeclared Covid-19 to be a Public Health Emergencyof International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30,2020. AFP reported 66 million infected populationand 1.5 million deaths worldwide. (2) While theworld is in need of the curative medicine andvaccines, many governments responded to thispandemic by implementing nationwide restrictedmovement of the public in the name of lockdown andquarantine as an intervention to stop the human tohuman transmission of Covid-19.