“COMMUNITY PROSPECTIVE EXPERIENCE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC”

Abstract

Background: The Covid -19 disease is very much present in our locality of 4,105 households and 25,545 people. We intend to describe most of the events related to Covid 19 disease like, occurrence of a case, new cases, progress of events, case management, recovery and perceptions of the community. Ours is an open community consisting of 4,105 houses. Methods: This is a prospective observation study of “Covid 19 disease phenomenon” in our community. The observations are about frequency, trends, progress and behavior.We planned to go round the community for 2 hours a day, to observe and record all that happens concerning Covid 19 disease, and also talk to those affected and record their perceptions in a validated questionnaire consisting of 20 close ended questions with answers graded on Leikert scale. The facts are put in “Observation sentence” and joined to make “Observation paragraphs”. Results: There were 167 Covid cases, 32 cases suffered severely, 91 cases mild form, 44 Covid positive only with no symptoms at all, and 20 cases died. There was fear of the disease to begin with, community learnt the disease, understood how to treat, and later normal life settled. Conclusion:The Covid 19 disease struck the community suddenly, there were new cases, severe form, mild form, asymptomatic and some died. These events conrm to situation happening at other places. Summary of the article: This article is the description of facts that occurred in an urban community concerning Covid 19 disease. There are 4,105 families in this community. Our leader announced the nationwide “Stay indoors” order to contain the spread of Covid 19 disease in the middle of March, 2021. Our community knew very little of this disease till then. There are ordinary daily wage earners, semiskilled persons, skilled persons, ofce goers and retired individuals besides women and children in this locality. Those individuals doing essential services like banking, healthcare, and grocery moved out for their work. These were the rst persons to get Covid disease in the month of June. Following this incident, their family members tested positive and many people were conrmed of the disease. The government took the responsibility of treatment, tracing, and testing. Also there were elaborate guidelines how people should behave during this period. The people in the community are also endowed with senses, they observed life as it went by , adhered to the guidelines announced, made adequate changes in their behaviour, pooled their resources, shared the resources, distanced the diseased and lived the life. In the time frame of one year did all the individuals get the Covid disease? How many contacted the disease? How many recovered from the disease? How many died due to the disease, is the main topic of this article.