Respiratory Diseases

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within a span of five months, has infected around 1 million people, resulting in deaths of 50,000 people in over 180 countries around the world till date.  The major issue right now is containing its rapid transmission and effective treatment option. Apart from these issues, governments are facing shortage of key medical equipment such as ventilators, surgical gowns, masks, coronavirus testing kits, gloves, etc. Similarly, the major problem for the frontline healthcare worker is to determine the priority of patients treatment like which patient to treat first based upon the condition or likelihood of recovery. To protect the...