Control measures used against COVID-19 has lead to substantial decrease in cases of influenza and pneumonia.

Article Positive effects of COVID-19 control measures on influenza prevention

Article Positive effects of COVID-19 control measures on pneumonia prevention

COVID-19 has put infection control and preventive measures at the front lines! Public awareness has increased significantly in terms of personal hygiene, disinfection, and environmental health and safety.

Social solidarity has been enhancing so many people’s lives through every way possible of support and community service.

Positive side of nCoV-2019 ??

1. It has reemphasised the need for maintaining social distancing and hand hygiene.

2. When the humans retreat, nature blossoms. Quite a few of us have noticed birds and animals reclaiming the nature.

3. The world has suddenly become one. If and when an effective vaccine become available, it will be the first vaccine to come out in such a short duration.

4. We have to be careful while dealing with wild animals. There are lots of viruses waiting to hop on to humans species.

5. Suddenly primary prevention has become the buzz words. Despite dietary link to hypertension, diabetes, coronary diseases etc. for decades we could never motivate humans to moderate their diet and start exercising. Now we understood what primary prevention means; hopefully the lessons regarding primary prevention from COVID will spill on to other diseases.

6. Lastly, we now have clean air, clean river, and less garbage.

Thank you so much dear Dr. Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak for your contribution.

Dear Prof. Vishal Singh thank you for your detailed discussion regarding the positive effects of nCoV-2019.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdowns have lead to decline in air pollution worldwide.

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it made the earth breathe

COVID-19 pandemic has also lead to clean beaches and reduced environmental noise.

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0048969720323305?token=4E2137F168B9162EA83F43CB64E3D94290BB0079E6B0994F12AFA5129745C19AEDB17C8A7E5C2E197AC9F8896F896B81

Peoples are concentrating more and more on healthy lifestyles like measures for maintaining personal hygiene, more affection to vegetables and homemade food items, increase in practices of meditation and yoga.

Parents are becoming more careful about the health of their babies. There is a significant improvement in environmental pollution.

The water quality of Indian rivers have improved due to coronavirus lockdowns.

https://sandrp.in/2020/04/11/cleaner-rivers-in-lockdown-lessons-we-can-learn/

Parents are spending more time with their children in a safer environment for taking them for walks near their homes.

The nature has improved and the peoples have followed and applied healthy lifestyles.

Are there any positive aspects of this situation or epidemic?

Because I don't see any positive ones.

The global economy is weakening and you see some positive aspects?

One of the major positive aspects that are emerging out of this pandemic is that the old principles of surveillance, testing and contact tracing are still the effective weapons to combat any pandemic. This is not to discount the role of effective vaccine or treatment in any pandemic; what is clear is where proper surveillance, testing and contact tracing have been relegated to a minor role the fight against the disease has been less effective. The other aspect has been clarity of communication, where this has been effective as in countries like New Zealand and South Korea the results are there to see.

There has also been a discussion on the cost of emergency preparedness in terms of equipment and other logistics. Some countries reduced their emergency prepared teams as well as stocks of equipment held only to learn the hard lesson now. Where emergency preparedness is well managed inventory does not go to waste or expire as it can be easily monitored and replaced at the right time. Management teams are put to good use by retraining and refresher courses regularly. This has been done in some countries which have effectively prevented diseases such as Cholera and Typhoid.

Finally, a multidisciplinary approach to a pandemic is always effective. For example, a pandemic requires experts in international public health, epidemiologists, logistics experts, information designers and communication systems, just to name only a few.

Though COVID-19 has resulted in high morbidity and mortality, the quality of air, and water has improved drastically as several industries, which were polluting our environment are closed due to lock down.

Dear Dr. Mahendra Pal thank you for your nice discussion.

I would like to thank and appreciate to Clement Sitali , Waldemar Łasica , Yehya A. Salih , Nancy Ann Watanabe , Harasit Kumar Paul and Ruaa SH Redeiny for your thoughtful answer and discussion.

Less air pollution due to low vehicular traffic, less river/sea pollution due to closed factories, less global warming due to less automation, better ozone layer health due to less chemical effluents, better ecological health of the planet due to less human activity

Please take a look at the following link.

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1785.full.pdf

Positive effects on the environment and human behaviour might be very temporary.

The positive effects are we stay at home with our family and environmental balance take place

Nature is healing and returning to its beautiful form.

Thank you Sovit Parajuli , for your informative inputs...

Agree with Utsav Poudel

Thank You, Dr. Muhammad Akram and Utsav Poudel for your important inputs in this discussion ...

I suggest to use for this discussion the answers to the question:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/In-your-opinion-what-is-the-most-positive-aspect-of-this-pandemic

Thank you Dear Vadym Slyusar for your nice input.

Control measures used against COVID-19 has lead to substantial decrease in cases of influenza and pneumonia.

Article Positive effects of COVID-19 control measures on influenza prevention

Article Positive effects of COVID-19 control measures on pneumonia prevention