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This study was done by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati in the year 2020-2021. One of the activities is public education and information dissemination by using local media and other methods. But little is known about level of public awareness of the disease and its prevention methods. So, this study generates important information regarding the level of public awareness of the disease which in turn contributes to designing better mitigation strategies. Hence this study was conducted to explore for educating peoples and providing awareness in public and also for encouraging public collaborations towards COVID-19 among residents of Western Zone, Maharashtra, India specially villages near by Baramati tahasils. Most participants mentioned common symptoms of the disease. Participants indicated different modes of transmission of COVID-19, explicitly; hand shaking, hugging, sitting together, contact with droplets during coughing and sneezing, making contact with infected air and objects, skin penetration and sharing clothes. 95%peoples under this study completed their Vaccination within the time.

The Covid-19 outbreak renders managing diabetes mellitus problematic. Infection with Covid-19 predisposes infected individuals to hyperglycemia, leading to hyper glycosylation of ACE2 and increased viral proliferation. Worsening of hyperglycaemia induces inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and thrombosis via the generation of oxidative stress driving the dysregulation of glucose metabolism and hypercoagulability. Severe infection in the individuals predisposed to vasculopathy and impaired immunity may accentuate thrombotic and ischemic complications associated with multiorgan failure and increased mortality rates. Covid-19 poses a major risk to the diabetes patients. This risk in diabetes patients could through cytokine storm. Some inflammatory cytokines especially interleukin 6 should be monitored.

WHO identified this severe form of pneumonia caused by a new corona virus leading to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).COVID-19 disease is believed to be transmitted primarily through contact with respiratory droplets produced by infected people, and its clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic cases and mild upper respiratory tract infections, to cases of pneumonia and severe respiratory failure and death. Globally, the new coronavirus has infected nearly 132 million people. Vaccination is an important strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants who agreed or strongly believed they had some immunity to COVID-19 were also significantly less likely to accept the vaccine. Participants with a history of vaccine hesitancy for their children were also significantly less likely to accept the COVID-19 vaccine.

Background: Globally, Closures of schools to mitigate the increase of COVID-19 have caused unprecedented disruption for nearly 1.6 billion school going children across the globe. Those affected the most are adolescent girls extremely in developing countries and the poorest households. Methods: Cross-sectional, quasi-representative survey of pre-post analysis, using a randomized sample from the adolescent girls in public primary schools. In total, 48 school administrators (24 head teachers and 24 deputy head teachers) and 14,917 pupils from 24 public primary schools in north rift region of Kenya. Therefore, the study population will be 30 administrators and 2378 adolescent girls in public primary schools in Uasin Gishu County of Kenya in 2021 and 2022. A sample size of 343 was assumed as the proportion suitable for this study using stratified random sampling techniques. Results: Majority were in the age bracket of 11-14 years old accounting for 174 (74.0%) compared to 61 (26.0%). Those in class 7 were the majority represented by 100 (42.6%); class 6 accounted for 87 (22.2%) while class 8 accounted for 48 (20.4%). The COVID- 19 containment guidelines were largely violated among the adolescent girls, which is a confirmation of behaviour change and lack of observation of prevention and control measures. not able to have increased access to economic opportunities, better health outcomes or useful, empowering knowledge, attitude and skills due to COVID- 19 Pandemic disruptions to key socioeconomic factors that support various families with composite mean score of (1.58, S,D .858) indicating strong disagreement with all the fifteen items that measured state of COVID- 19 outbreak impacts on wellbeing of adolescent girls. The findings showed that the Pearson’s correlation between COVID- 19 pandemic containment guidelines and the wellbeing of adolescent girls is [R =-0.624, p = 0.000], wellbeing and lockdown measure [R = 0.966, p = 0.000], stay at home measure [R = 0.921, p = 0.000], group gathering restrictions measure [R = 0.926, p = 0.000] and COVID- 19 Pandemic [R = 0.832, p = 0.000], showing a statistically significant bivariate association between the independent and dependent variables. Increased COVID- 19 Pandemic containment guidelines led to greater disruptions of basics of wellbeing environment. School closure had -0.718; Lockdown measure indicated -0.802; stay at home -0.679; while group gathering restrictions showed -0.812 all revealing significant bivariate associations with wellbeing of adolescent girls all explaining 53.2% of the wellbeing dimensions in this paper [R2 = 0.532, p = 0.000, ß = 0.615, t =5.857, ?= 0.000]. Therefore, the hypothesis that “hypothesis that COVID-19 pandemic restriction guidelines do not affect wellbeing of adolescent girls” is rejected and concluded that there is an effect of COVID -19 pandemic restriction guidelines on wellbeing of adolescent girls among the public primary schools. Conclusions: COVID -19 pandemic restriction guidelines has greater negative effects on wellbeing of adolescent girls among the public primary schools. Adolescent girls experienced disrupted fundamental acquisition, access, distribution and delivery of education, health, economic empowerment, all gender-based-violence forms, water-sanitation-hygiene, conflicts-emergency-humanitarian-settings, as well as adolescent girls’ intersecting needs leading to declining state of wellbeing.

Prison population health has been a consistent challenge that was further exasperated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have documented the impacts of confined prison living on the public health of the prison population and how prisoners were at significantly higher risk of infection and death from COVID-19 than the general population, but there is insufficient scholarship on the protective and risk factors that COVID-19 may have had on the mortality characteristics of prisoners. The goal of this research is to determine whether the COVID-19 period was associated with significant increases in prison inmate mortality in the California and Texas prison systems compared to the pre-pandemic period.