DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2020.v07i10.001

Pages: 142-146

The entire planet is suffering from the current infection- COVID-19 and it has not only caused a depression in economy but had put every individual at a risk of catching the virus, especially the medical and dental health professionals who are in direct contact with the patients. As on 22 September, 2020 there are 34.1 million cases recorded for COVID-19, of which 21.5 million people recovered from the infection and sadly, 9.66 lakhs population died of COVID-19 infection. This does not make us forget the 2009 Swine flu pandemic that had infected 60 million population world-wide. The H1N1 virus was a new swine flu virus that had genetic material of swine, bird and human influenza virus in combination due to reassortment whereas SARS-CoV-2 is very similar to the SARS-CoV that happened in 2002-2003, indicating that a new person-to-person transmission of infectious agent (coronavirus) had caused the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, day by day the graph of COVID-19 infection is rising. So, it is important to take into consideration about both the pandemics as it may prove to be a deadly one.