Abstract
There have been several measures adopt to manage the increase of COVID-19 in India. To combat the COVID-19 Pandemic faced by the nation, Govt. of India has in employ gigantic amount of procedures like Lockdown, aggressive testing, infusing funds to improve the financial system, present incentives to various sectors, promoting digital dealings, e-learning, etc. The challenge remains the acceptance and adoption of these by people of India. The need will be to educate people about this epidemic and increase their knowledge in the direction of it so that extend of the same can be slowed down. Majority people have not only to change their practices but also their attitude towards life. The lifestyles are bound to be affected due to COVID-19 across India. Through this study we will try to gauge on these aspects. For this a survey on people of Tricity (Chandigarh/ Mohali/ Panchkula) was conducted. The questionnaire included 20 questions to assess the understanding of the residents on the measures adopted for the prevention of disease and what they are doing on their own to come out of this. The study is based on their confidence level, knowledge level and the practices they are adopting towards this epidemic. The study found not too high levels of knowledge scores of the respondents. However, the results showed high levels of confidence and practices followed in such situation. The results of the demographic analysis revealed the knowledge scores showed significant differences existed between the groups based on gender and age. However, no significant differences are found for attitude and practices across the groups based on gender and age.
Highlights
COVID-19, a disease which originated from the city of Wuhan of China in December 2019 with acute symptoms of respiration, dry cough, illness, tiredness, myalgia, is infecting humans to humans
The results of the test show that there is no significant difference between the attitude of males and females towards Covid[19]
Almost all of the countries of the world are making efforts to check the spread of coronavirus including India
Summary
COVID-19, a disease which originated from the city of Wuhan of China in December 2019 with acute symptoms of respiration, dry cough, illness, tiredness, myalgia, is infecting humans to humans. The disease becomes more fatal in-case of people already suffering from heart related problems, diabetics, acute respiratory problems and cancer. WHO (World Health Organisation) declared the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus Disease) outbreak as a global emergency with more than 9000 cases reported worldwide and 19 countries including China[4]. With rapid spread of the Coronavirus disease, WHO declared it as pandemic on 11th March, 20206. SARS outbreak that was there in the year 2003 gave many insights related to knowledge and attitude of the people for infectious diseases. To contribute in managing the COVID-19 outbreak in India, it becomes more important toward appreciate the consciousness of public for COVID-19. An attempt has been made to know the knowledge, practices and attitude of the people of Tricity towards the COVID-19 outbreak
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