An essay explaining the importance of mobile phones during the pandemic(COVID-19) in 150-200 words. Please kindly Co-operate me and give the answer.
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mobile phones are very important for student life in the time of pandemic covid-19 by this we can continue our studies without any difficulties the teachers are sending the work to us children's children and we can continue our study and by this mobile we can also tender online studies classes and we can also do the exams with mobile phones
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Covid-19 is now a global pandemic. There is some evidence to suggest possible fomite transmission. Hence, inanimate objects play a significant role in their transmission.
In this commentary, we discuss ‘mobile phones’ as a potential vector of severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2 spread. The use of mobile phones has not been restricted in hospital and other healthcare settings. Hence, mobile phones could be a missing link in controlling the covid-19 pandemic.
We recommend, as part of efforts to control the covid-19 pandemic, awareness of ‘mobile phone hygiene’; restriction of mobile phone use in healthcare settings; avoiding the sharing of mobile phones, headphones or headsets of any kind; and widely disseminated advice from mobile companies, governments and WHO on how to disinfect mobile phones.
Mobile phones in healthcare settings
Hospitals and other healthcare settings can facilitate the spread of infectious diseases.1 The recent outbreak of covid-19 is the third documented spillover of animal coronavirus to humans in the past two decades, after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002 and the Middle East respiratory syndrome in 2012. It has brought the focus of disease epidemiology to the healthcare institutions. The index case which sets the motion of outbreak investigations and subsequent control measures are initiated only after coming in contact with the healthcare institutions.2
Hospitals without proper infection control measures are a liability during an epidemic.3 They may become sources of hospital-acquired infections. They may initiate a vicious cycle of new disease diagnosis and newly acquired infections, both simultaneously occurring in the same hospital. For any infectious disease, it is the mode of transmission that bridges the source or reservoir with a susceptible host. It is this point which needs to be interrupted to prevent and control further disease transmission.4 Healthcare professionals are a bridge between infectious patients in hospitals (core population) and the general population in transmitting the disease.
The things they use within the hospital premises may facilitate such disease transmission.1 These include mobile phones. Globally, there are 5.07 billion5 mobile phone users. There are almost 1.2 billion6 users in India alone; 23% of mobile phone users globally are in India. Based on mobile phone usage, India is placed second only next to China.7 It is important for healthcare professionals to use mobile phones in the hospital and other health and care settings, especially for communication.
Covid-19, mobile phones and disease epidemiology
There have been recent discussions on curbing the use of white coats as a way of preventing hospital-acquired infection.8 9 However, mobile phones are arguably much more commonly and extensively used by healthcare professionals compared with white coats. Apart from social media use, health professionals use mobile phones to follow health-related news; communicate with one another; look up updated guidelines, drug interactions, adverse events and health research; for photography, sharing medical documents, conducting teleconsultations and patient tracking; all resulting in extensive use of mobile phones.10 The self-reported use of mobile phones among health workers ranges from once in every 15 min to once in 2 hours.11
Mobile phones are one of the most highly touched surfaces according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with counters, tabletops, doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, toilets, keyboards, tablets and bedside tables.