The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted the world with a heavy toll on human lives and economic activities. Its rapid global spread has and continues to affect millions of people. The countries most affected by the virus have experienced a heavy burden on their healthcare systems and witnessed shortages of medical equipment, medication and sanitary materials. Globally, most countries have been forced to adopt strict measures to fight coronavirus. In addition to following World Health Organisation recommendations to test widely, contact trace, and quarantine, most countries have adopted measures such as total lockdowns, stay at home to save lives campaigns, and travel and movement restrictions, social or physical distancing and handwashing. What could be observed is that most of the solutions to this pandemic has been offered by medical experts based on their epidemiological studies, mainly to flatten the epidemic curve. Unfortunately, the medical driven solutions have been problematic in the context of overcrowding, poverty, and weak health-care systems not just in developing countries but also in developed countries. The Medical sponsored interventions place a heavy toll on the informal economic and casual labour sector and success depends on a particular country's political leadership, socioeconomic realities, and epidemic stage. COVID-19 presents more than a health problem i.e “a state in which a person is unable to function normally and without pain” because a person can in some cases function normally and without pain with COVID-19. It presents social problem, defined broadly as “a condition that has negative consequences for large numbers of people and that is generally recognized as a condition that needs to be addressed.” It requires mainly social solutions. This understanding will shift the paradigm from medical to social. The paper is of a view that the ways in which a problem is perceived and judged strongly affect the kind of solution suggested, so far the solutions are short term, unsustainable and medical in design. Further, COVID -19 requires social solutions based on people’s perceptions of the social problem, exiting social conditions, and people’s perception of their desired quality of life.