Abstract
In December, 2019, novel corona virus 2019-nCoV or SARS- CoV-2 or COVID 19 was reported in Wuhan city of China. Expeditious transmissibility, extremely virulent nature and acute pathogenicity, World Health Organization declared as a public health emergency of international concern on 30th January 2020. During the pandemic era crime and illicit economies such as organized criminal activities, domestic violence, terrorism, street crime, online crime, illegal markets and smuggling, human and wildlife trafficking, slavery, robberies and burglaries increased in the exponential manner. It was established that the viral particles remain on various surfaces 3 to 5 days, this long lasting persistence of viral particles are serious concern to public health. Since, forensic investigators as well as police personnel directly deal with the crime exhibits, which impose serious concern to their lives.In this report, we explore the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on forensic and new normal practice.
Highlights
COVID 19, which referred to as novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS- CoV-2), has been created the global pandemic and pause the world
Forensic investigators as well as police personnel directly deal with the crime exhibits, which impose serious concern to their lives.In this report, we explore the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on forensic and new normal practice
This novel virus first described as 2019-nCoV and World Health Organization (WHO) renamed it COVID 19 and due to an exponential increase of confirmed COVID patients WHO declared it, a public health emergency of international concern on 30th January 2020 (1). After this declaration of international public health emergency, a pandemic situation was created across the world and all the countries focused their total attention to this critical condition to break the chain of spreading of this virus by adopting various safety measures and formulated the safety guidelines at the national level along with awareness and educating the people
Summary
COVID 19, which referred to as novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS- CoV-2), has been created the global pandemic and pause the world. The SARS- CoV-2 or COVID 19 originated from Wuhan city of China in December, 2019 This novel virus first described as 2019-nCoV and World Health Organization (WHO) renamed it COVID 19 and due to an exponential increase of confirmed COVID patients WHO declared it, a public health emergency of international concern on 30th January 2020 (1). India is the second most populated country aligned with diversified populations residing in urban and rural areas of the country (2), (3).The total number of COVID 19 confirmed cases and deaths i.e. 25,772,470 and 287,122 respectively,(The COVID data were taken from WHO website as on 11:08am CEST, May 2021; https://COVID19.who.int/table). Corresponding author: RK Kumawat DNA Division, State Forensic Science Laboratory Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302016, India
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