Is India's Health Care Infrastructure Sufficient for Handling COVID 19 Pandemic?
Singh Abhishek, Deedwania Dr. Preeti, K Dr. Vinay, Chowdhury Dr. Apala Roy, Khanna Dr. Puneet
Abstract
In the last week of December 2019, the first case of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirusin Wuhan city, China, was diagnosed. Person to person transmission of novel coronavirus was confirmed by china on 21 January 2020 with more than 200 diagnosed cases and 4 death [1]. On 30th January 2020, WHO declared the Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern posing a high risk to countries with the poor health care system
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