Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) declared Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) as a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and later confirmed it as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. In India first case of COVID-19 was detected on 31 January 2020 and as of 14 April 2020;354 districts were affected and 10,363 confirmed cases were reported. India has adopted various non pharmacological interventions to control the spread of COVID-19 such as nationwide lockdown and social distancing. This study was undertaken to assess the impact of non-pharmacological interventions adopted by India to contain the spread of novel corona virus (SARS CoV-2) during the pandemic period. Material and Methods: We analyzed the data of number of cases reported to WHO in three weeks prior to announcement of lockdown and three weeks during the lockdown period. Doubling time and rate of spread of COVID-19 cases was calculated to assess the impact of non-pharmacological interventions. Data was entered in MS excel and was analyzed using the software GraphPad Prism version 8.4.2.
Pandemic corona virus disease (COVID-19) and non-pharmacological interventions: an impact assessment from India. (Special Issue: COVID-19.)