IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON INDIAN MEDICAL POSTGRADUATES FROM DIAGNOSTIC BRANCHES

Abstract

The outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel corona virus (named “COVID-2019”) was declared a global health emergency on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). The function of laboratory medicine emerged during infectious disease outbreaks eruption has a well-established history(4). Clinical chemistry laboratories played a vital role in treating the COVID-19 pandemic in several ways, by establishing diagnosis, prognosis, disease staging, therapeutic medication monitoring, and epidemiologic surveillance investigations (5).