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CCOVID-19 was first reported in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, and spread throughout the world like a pandemic. The population all over the world used lots of medicinal plants for prevention purposes. India has been blessed with cultural wisdom. Social health practices across the country have been utilizing integrative treatments to fight against mild fever and cold flu-like infections. Herbal and Ayurveda medicines have shown their impact on treating such infections in the early stages. The impact of herbal medicines on Covid infection is quite evident and several drug tests and trials have proved its worth of it in treating mild to severe infections. The majority of these plants are used to treat respiratory diseases having the same signs and symptoms as coronavirus symptoms or other flu infections. Our body can fight infections only when immunity is strong and for that herbal drugs as immunomodulators work well. It has worked in boosting the immunity of the patients and normal people to fight against Corona. The paper analyzes such research studies on Covid-19 treatment by herbal medicines. It makes a point that herbal medicine-based treatments and social health practices will play a complementary role in managing Covid-19 and Post-Covid health emergencies. New-Normal social ethics will evolve through such an integrative social health culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the detection of COVID-19 whole world is continuously facing dreadful effects physically, mentally, and economically. Although every patient was affected biggest setback was for cancer patients, who found double trouble as the situation was getting worsened with rising toll and the sudden lockdown. In starting phase of this pandemic, dealing with novel coronavirus with limited resources and lack of training was complicated for the health care staff. Management of patients with proper moral support, especially cancer patients who are already immune-compromised it was a difficult task for the oncologists and the entire team. In this pandemic duration management of radiotherapy patients not only affected the functionality of the entire radiotherapy department but somewhere created mental pressure on oncologists, medical physicists, technologists, and other staff regarding their safety also. Aim: Aim of this study to understand the ethical issues in the radiotherapy department observed during COVID-19 and the impact ofCOVID-19 on radiotherapy staff. Material and methods: This study is based on a rapid review of literature from various Scopus and SCI journals. In this time of crisis, not only patients undergoing treatment but also healthcare staff have been affected due to meager knowledge of fatal corona virus and lack of armamentarium. This pandemic time has created many professional difficulties and ethical issues like the selection of patients for the treatment, their safety, patient management. The situation was getting worsened with increasing toll but at right time lockdown was imposed. Guidelines were prescribed by the government from time to time. The government offered bit relief for the cancer patients by announcing no shutdown for OPD for the cancer patients in prescribed guidelines. However social distancing, N-95 mask, and PPE kit showed some ray of hope to revive back the system. Since radiotherapy is a daycare treatment process, in the daily fractionation procedure of radiation many problems were faced by the patients in lockdown. Also, in every domain of the radiotherapy department radiation oncologists, medical physicists, technologists, and other staff has faced a lot of problems. Conclusion: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged everyone. Global connectivity helped a lot in the development of strategies in dealing with this deadly COVID-19 in the healthcare sector. Good practice during COVID-19 by many radiotherapy departments is not only successfully able to reduce the infection spread among patients, medical staff without compromising the quality of treatment. There must be some guidelines or strategies on the departmental /institutional level which can be followed in such a crisis and can be beneficial for others also. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies across the health care spectrum have evolved as the biggest instrument for managing catastrophically spread (COVID-19) pandemic. The outbreak of novel coronavirus has posed numerous arduous challenges such as well-being, Financial, ecological, social, and ethical challenges to the entire world populace and disrupted global economy. This paper aims to thoroughly explore and analyze the role of AI coupled with radiological imaging as one important tool for covid-19 screening, prediction, forecasting, and contact tracing using chest X-ray images and Computer Tomography scan over the conventional RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) technique, which is the conventional technique used in the prognosis of the novel corona. This paper further accentuates Al's role in the fight to curb this pandemic and suggestsan innovative solution for COVID-19 health management by minimizing human contact and protecting front-line healthcare personnel, administrative staff, and the public at large. A systematic approach for literature review is carried out on the reputed database. This research makes a seminal contribution by compiling the most upto-date state-of-the-art scientific approaches to the COVID-19 assessment., using real-world datasets and the ethical perspective of AI-powered solutions for COVID-19 health management. The findings are reviewed and concluded in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the first outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019, there havebeen Millions of confirmed cases of pandemic COVID-19, including Millions of deaths, reported to WHO. In order to develop drugs and vaccines against the disease, researchers around the world have been in a sprint. SARS-CoV-2 encodes many structural proteins that are responsible for host penetration, attachment, recycling, and pathogenesis, such as spike, envelope, membrane, and nucleocapsid. The spike glycoprotein has gotten a lot of attention because of its interactions with human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which makes it a good candidate for blocking of viral entry. Sequence information on the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and its ACE2 complexes can provide key inputs for the development of new therapeutic strategies and vaccines. The WHO has developed strategies to interrupt human-human communication, speed up testing, correctly transmit information to the public and mitigate the social and economic effect of this emerging battle against this deadly virus. SARS-Co V-2, is a member of β-corona viruses family. Symptoms of Covid-19 are milder than SARS and MERS, but it transmits faster than them. Besides, the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is lower (3.4%) than that of SARS-CoV (9.6%) and MERS (35%). The high transmissibility and pathogenicity are major challenges of SARS-CoV-2. The Newly emerged strains of SARS-Co V-2(B .1.1. 7,B .1.3 51 &B .1.617 .2 )are proving more lethal and highly pathogenic than the previously known variants. The current state of development of the human severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus vaccine is evaluated in this analysis, based on recently published results. Whilethere is much evidence that various vaccine strategies against SARS are safe and immunogenic, vaccinated animals still display significant disease upon challenge. Furthermore, we summarize future challenges and strategies may produce due to the emergence of new strains of SARS-Co V-2 (United Kingdom B.1.1. 7 and Republic of SouthAfricaB.1.351 )in the development of vaccines. In this review, we provide an overview of the experimental and clinical data obtained from recent SARSCo V-2 variants and vaccines development program, and highlight certain bioethical issues that require consideration when developing vaccines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world is struggling with a serious pandemic of disease 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19), which was emerged from Wuhan in China, originated by the novel corona virus 2019 (SARS-Co V-2). The scientific signs of COVID-19 are very much like other respiratory viruses. The elderly and immune compromised persons were considered more vulnerable to severe infections of such respiratory tract diseases but the spread of this recent pandemic raises fear that immunodeficiency is not quite the main factor. With the vaccinations now occurring across the country, health officials are optimistic that the outbreak could be under control by the end of this year. But till date the pandemic is not in control. Across the globe, the virus is still circulating widely, even surging, in many countries. Vaccines and treatment options are currently being investigated but there is no definitive evidence that certain medications are effective with regard to preventing illness or transmission of the COVID-19.Various search engines like Scopus, Pubmed and WHO databases were accessed and literature on current advances about COVID-19 including structural features, replication, possible pathogenic, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, methods of prevention and possible therapeutic agents used for treatment of patients was reviewed. This review is intended to bring to the fore information that will clear speculations and make sense of confusing and often conflicting scientific data about the role of immune competence in the prevention, transmission of and recovery from covid-19 and other similar infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]