Self quarantine of the person who has come in contact with a positive case of COVID-`9, avoiding to visit crowded areas, using of face mask when going out, immediate washing of hands with soap and water after coming in contact with symptomatic person or surface, eating of foods rich in antioxidants to increase the immunity, greeting the person with Namaste (Indian way of greeting) instead of hand shaking, seeking immediate medical help in case person shows cough, fever, difficulty in breathing etc. will certainly help to control the spread of this emerging viral disease.

I recommend the use of Vaseline in both nostril whenever go out of home, daily drinking of one lemon juice in one glass of water in morning, and eating of nuts. This has helped my family and relatives to prevent respiratory infections.

Across the history of human epidemics and pandemics quarantine and isolation have been frequently applied, and to good effect. As you'll see in my books like Cartographies of Disease, in 1691 a multi-stage quarantine program in Bari Italy existed. It is remarkably like what China instituted at the beginning of this year.

Physical distancing is a social intervention. Ideally, with it work work to make sure isolation does not become a psychological or practical problem.

After SARS The WHO and member countries changed a series of policies to assure better global reportage and, hopefully, better responses to a pandemic. But as is evident today, individual countries are not all able to act quickly and fully. Nor is the WHO which, as a UN agency, is dependent on it for funds.

So a "better" way would be to full fund and encourage both global health agencies like the WHO and national agencies--like the CDC in the US. It would require greater coordination of policies as epidemics begin to expand. And more broadly a universal attention to and support of health infrastructures not only nationally but internationally.

BTW ... you'll see my Notes on the Next Pandemic here on Research Gate, a talk I gave last October to physicians at grand rounds for hospitals in Portland, OR.

Mohammed R Ahmed to date, All countries try to control and prevent infection. As you saw that lockdown and curfew decrease the new cases. So, in my view, I thought prevention better than cure at first.

Each virus has a weak point that can be exploited and working on its basis. One of the most important points is that its outer surface is fat and fat. There are ways to remove it. Within the virus, there is a protein substance and in the center of its genes RNA, which also has weaknesses. I think his problem did not last long. But the initial preparations to confront it were not up to standard.

As we work to ‘manage’ this pandemic it’s important to note the similarities with those in the past and the structural problems that have contributed to its surge. These include a failure of health infrastructures in both rich and less rich nations. It includes issues of income and social inequalities that create vulnerable populations living in dense, substandard structures, etc. And it includes an economic system that favours the short-term profit over the longer term perspective. Without focused attention to these this virus is just a precursor for what the WHO calls “Disease X,” a new pandemic without effective medications and a much higher mortality rate.