Covid-19; Social Distancing - Only Solution

Listened PM’s address to the nation on Covid-19 pandemic and realized the gravity of the situation. In the following lines, I am sharing with you, how I understand the gravity of this unprecedented situation.

1)  We are currently going through Stage-1 and Stage-2 of Covid-19 pandemic, which essentially means that the source of infection is identifiable. But if proper precautions are not taken at this stage, we will soon enter Stage-3, when it will not be possible to identify the source of infection and then it will be impossible to control it (Stage-3 is known as community spread).

2) Two weeks quarantine is a very good strategy (and the only solution). If everyone isolates himself for two weeks, we will be able to identify almost everyone who is infected by Covid-19 and then it will be far easier to control the spread of Covid-19 by isolating the affected people. Therefore, it is very important that as many of us must socially isolate ourselves as possible.

3)   Please note that Covid-19 infected person can infect others even when symptoms of Covid-19 have not manifested in the infected person. This is called ‘Asymptomatic Infection’. There is no way we can know that the person we are meeting is Covid-19 infected or not.

Therefore, Social Distancing is the only effective solution to combat Covid-19 pandemic. There is no remedy except Social Distancing, in the foreseeable future.

Please cooperate.