Pandemic Outbreak - What can the Global Leaders do now?

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Waking up to listen to the world breathing heavily in pain is now a routine thing for all of us. The novel coronavirus has chained down economic growth and has engulfed thousands of lives and smiles. All we can do now is to become proactive in leashing down the spread rate of the COVID-19 virus and refrain it from affecting more masses.

No other time would be better than now itself for the leaders to jump into the mankind vs. novel coronavirus battle and protect millions of lives from being preyed by the pandemic-causing virus.

Locking down – Testing – Treatment and Vaccine, are the three sure-shot steps that will give us complete ammunition to combat the deadly virus. It is the leaders' work to efficiently implement the three aforesaid steps and troubleshoot the problems on the go.

Let’s talk about each of the three steps in detail.

“Cases doubling time has increased to 11 days, as compared to 3.4 days after lockdown” – Health Ministry of India.

Applying brakes to the rapidly increasing coronavirus positive patients are the foremost priority of the hour. Disobeying the requests issued by the health workers, many countries are yet not completely locked down. As a result, public services such as restaurants, parks, and much more are operational as they were before. And the disease is being invited via public gatherings.

The leaders should themselves be clear and also make it clear to the masses that social distancing is the only and only way to keep the coronavirus away from us and our loved ones. Also, lockdowns should be strictly incorporated by utilizing legal acts, if required.

“India is aiming to perform 1 Lakh COVID-19 testing per day in the forthcoming months” – Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR).

There’s an urgent need to speed up the COVID-19 testing across the globe to identify the positive patients, and quarantining them to break the chain of further infection spread to others from him or her. We can cite a notable move from Rajasthan which has put forth a target of 10,000 coronavirus tests being carried out each day.

Along with speeding up the test process, the countries should also focus on testing the right people. The health workers, police forces, and the janitorial staff are the most prone to get transformed into a dreaded virus-infected mass. So, these people need to be tested more rapidly and heavily.

As the clock ticks, the equilibrium between demand for testing and their conduction is likely to get disturbed. Hence, more testing kits, laboratories, and health staff would be in surging demand. The alternatives for testing technologies are required to strike out a balance between the two parameters. Self-swab, saliva tests, etc. are among the most sought-after innovations right now, which are needed to be innovated and brought into use to quench the growing demand for testing.

Finally, we need to focus on treatments and vaccine inventions against COVID-19.

We saw in the last few days, how the breaking of news for hydroxychloroquine being found effective in curing COVID-19 patients, went eccentrically to the masses, leading to stocking up of the drug by them for an emergency. The outcomes for such a panic could be as drastic as the patients, who are in a dire need for the drug to survive, would not be administered with its dosage causing innumerable fatalities. The leaders are expected to extinguish the fire spread due to such kind of rumors and prevent their further traversal.

A boon to the entire mankind would be the invention of an effective vaccine against COVID-19. The scientists and researchers are moving the Earth and Heaven to come up with an efficient vaccine for combatting the fatal disease.

It’s never too late. We still have time and ample opportunities to save mankind from getting buried underneath the outbreak. Utilizing the most advanced technologies, time management, and immediate reflexes, we can still take the situation in our control, and get back to our daily routine and lives very soon.