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Prävention von Corona-Virus-Infektionen bei Beschäftigten im Gesundheitswesen

Sanjay Kumar Dabhi

Background: Pneumonia of unknown origin was note down to China office of the WHO on December 31st 2019. This Pneumonia of unknown origin is recognized by WHO as a SARs-CoV-2 which is generally known as Novel corona virus which leads to highest mortality rate all around world including frontline health care workers specially called corona warriors. The COVID-19 corona virus has banged the world off its axis. We won’t return to anything approaching normal that is, life without social distancing, quarantines, masks, school closures and other control measures until most of the world has been vaccinated against the virus. Everyone, therefore, has the same question on their mind: How fast will a vaccine be ready? Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. There are only things that can reduce the transmission among health care workers are Prevention is better than cure. That’s why every health care worker must aware about the WHO strategies to reduce or limit the transmission of corona virus infections.

Objectives & Aims: To reduce risk transmission of infection among health care workers Conclusion: Health care workers being the frontline COVID warriors must have adequate knowledge and skills to manage COVID-19 cases effectively. All the health care workers who are assigned to care of the Covid-19 patients must know about the infection prevention or limit the transmission of deadly disease. They must be aware to keep themselves updated with the new guidelines on COVID 19 as per WHO protocol. This will improve their confidence in dealing with such cases and patient outcome as well. This review articles provides awareness among health care workers and help them to reduce transmission of infection during care of covid-19 patients and also help to reduce the mortality among the corona warriors (health care workers). Key words: Frontline workers, Covid-19, SARs-Cov-2, Pandemic, Novel Corona, Deadly disease, Preventive measures of Covid-19, Reduce risk transmission of Covid-19.