Best Public Health practices to Control & Prevent COVID - 19 in Haryana

Abstract

The novel disease COVID - 19 has reached to 33 States/ Union Territories (UT) of India causing more than 49,000 infections and 1600 deaths till 6th May, 2020. Various measures have been undertaken to control and arrest the spread of this disease in country which include invocation of Epidemic Act, 1897, social distancing, nationwide lockdown, enhanced active and passive surveillance. COVID - 19 containment strategy for single large area with multiple foci and cluster is being implemented. The real war is being fought by the silent warriors, i.e. Public Health workforce of India at community level, to arrest the local transmission of COVID - 19 following mapping & micro-planning as given in National guidelines. As the quality implementation of these field activities is essential to control this disease, several Central Rapid Response Teams (CRRT) were constituted to visit States/ UTs to provide assistance in effective implementation of same. The present article is compilation of best public health practices observed by CRRT, Haryana, State, which were followed to conduct surveillance, monitoring, awareness generation, coordination etc. at community level, with objective to enable its replication by other States/ UTs. How to cite this article:Kumar A, Karotia D. Best Public Health practices to Control & Prevent COVID - 19 in Haryana. Epidem Int 2020; 5(2): 17-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2455.7048.202012