Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre, Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eyecare, LV Prasad Eye Institute; Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India; School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA.
Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, via Olgettina, Milan, Italy.
Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 May;68(5):703-710. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_843_20.
Emerging pandemics show that humans are not infallible and communities need to be prepared. Coronavirus outbreak was first reported towards the end of 2019 and has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Worldwide countries are responding differently to the virus outbreak. A delay in detection and response has been recorded in China, as well as in other major countries, which led to an overburdening of the local health systems. On the other hand, some other nations have put in place effective strategies to contain the infection and have recorded a very low number of cases since the beginning of the pandemics. Restrictive measures like social distancing, lockdown, case detection, isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine of exposed had revealed the most efficient actions to control the disease spreading. This review will help the readers to understand the difference in response by different countries and their outcomes. Based on the experience of these countries, India responded to the pandemic accordingly. Only time will tell how well India has faced the outbreak. We also suggest the future directions that the global community should take to manage and mitigate the emergency.
新兴的大流行病表明，人类并非无懈可击，社区需要做好准备。2019 年底首次报告了冠状病毒爆发，世界卫生组织现已宣布该病毒为大流行病。世界各国对病毒爆发的反应各不相同。中国以及其他主要国家在检测和应对方面出现了延迟，这导致当地卫生系统不堪重负。另一方面，一些其他国家已经制定了有效的策略来控制感染，自大流行开始以来，这些国家的病例数量非常少。社会隔离、封锁、病例检测、隔离、接触者追踪和对暴露者的检疫等限制措施已经显示出控制疾病传播的最有效行动。这篇综述将帮助读者了解不同国家的反应及其结果之间的差异。基于这些国家的经验，印度对大流行做出了相应的反应。只有时间才能证明印度在应对疫情方面表现如何。我们还提出了全球社会应采取的管理和缓解紧急情况的未来方向。
