Misconceptions in Indian People about Covid 19 Pandemic

Abstract

According to WHO pandemic is a occurrence in community a illness or health issues or symptoms clearly in excess of normalexpectancy. Covid 19 has involved whole globe, affected all countries and their states.So WHO declared it as a global health emergency . To hasten the spread of Covid 19 , all countries declared complete closure of public places and forced the people to close themselves inside their home. In India most of the population around 60% population reside in rural areas and  most of them are illiterate. This high illiteracy ratio also tell about the capability of people to understand the situation of emergency . Because of unawareness about infections, it was difficult for these people to understand the course of spread of Covid 19 and required precautions for protection from diseases .Because of  low knowledge about these disease, people started believing on myths and false information . Some myths raised fear in peoples about disease and pandemics . When disease was new even WHO was unaware about Covid 19. people started spreading false rumors about protection from disease and some of the businesses made profit from this. Media was also responsible for spreading wrong information about disease. This made people scared and also affected their social life .It is said that less knowledge is dangerous.People know very less about Covid 19.All informationthey have is from social media which was misleading . In India people believe more on what’s app  forwards than physician which was the biggest reason for these myths about Covid 19