E-prescription – Curbing the COVID-19!

Abstract

Within a couple of months since the first case diagnosis, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) briskly swamped the world and was affirmed as the pandemic by the World Health Organization. [1] The primary source of contagion remains the respiratory droplets and infected fomites. With more than 200 countries (including areas/territories) afflicted, 7.5 million confirmed cases and 400 thousand deaths, the rising figures are disquieting. [2] India is currently combating this pandemic with full vigor. A nationwide lockdown was implemented in India from March 25, 2020, when there were nearly 600 cases diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country. There was no community transmission of COVID-19 in India and it was struggling hard to contain the disease, with 46,000 confirmed cases till the 1 st week of May. [2] However, by the mid of June 2020, the total cases in India have crossed 3 lakhs and total deaths are nearing 10000. [3] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.