a. Treating of cases : In the present day scenario treating
these cases involve different steps and the treatment varies due to
developing trend about the CORONA virus epidemiology -
- First isolate the patient.
- Treatment of symptoms like fever , dyspnoea , cough , headache
, breathlessness, pneumonia etc .
- Iv fluids to improve health and prevent loss of salts and
improve immunity.
- O2 inhalation to maintain OXYGEN saturation.
- If breathlessness is severe , ventilate the patient .
- Antiviral medications like REMDESIVIR are used in treatment .
But this drug is not officially approved for corona virus . It is
in clinical trials .
b. Preventing further spreading -
- Isolate the patient and his contacts and quarantine them .
- Wear face mask as the virus spreads mainly by droplets.
- Educate the public about the mode of spread of virus and be
cautious about the disease .
- Avoid overcrowding of the public.
- To boost the immunity of the public .
- Isolate the public or area and conduct mass checkup campaigns
to find out the diseased persons.
- Control the movement of people till the outbreak comes under
control.
- Proper sanitation and frequent hand wash practices to keep the
disease away.
- Follow social distancing.
c. MONITORING THE EFFECTS OF CONTROL MEASURES -
- Surveillance measures.
- Monitoring case fatality rate.
- Monitoring case mortality rate.
- Recovery rate.
- Incidence rate .
- Prevalence rate.
If there is a good control , recovery rate will increase and all
the other rates will decrease which is a good indicator of
effective control measures.