Covid 19 pandemic: challenges, available and future global armoury (Preprint)

Abstract

BACKGROUND The SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID-19) outbreak is a major health crisis across the globe that caused significant distress and hence deteriorates the quality of life (QoL)of the individual. People try to maintain good physical health. However, mental affliction is still overlooked. Increase mortality and morbidity rate, loss of income, home-schooling and social isolation are few reasons responsible for declined health in varieties of populations. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present review is to raise mindfulness among readers toward the management of physical and mental health by catering adequate information about the symptoms, risk factors, protecting factors, accessible diagnosis technique, available medications and vaccines for COVID-19 health emergency together with investigational research that may be helpful to better deal with this calamity. METHODS A narrative review of all the relevant articles and reports were conducted with relevant keywords across different sources. RESULTS This review includes symptoms of declined physical health laterally with different accessible diagnostic techniques for COVID-19. Also contains the COVID-linked psychological agony in diverse population groups, its impact on the mind, with possible risk and protecting factors along with suggested solutions for maintaining good health. Additionally, it enlists available medications, vaccines and also some investigational research in the form of patents and clinical trials. CONCLUSIONS This article may act as a complete information sheet for COVID-19 related well-being accompanied by its management techniques with special emphasis on coping strategies for mental health, an ignored health segment. Further, it may assist the leaders and policy-makers to devise more novel and innovative policies that enable the public to overcome this pandemic-driven adversity not only in the present situation but also help to prepare for impending disasters. CLINICALTRIAL Not applicable