RT - Journal TY - JOUR A1 - Nadig, Abhishek A1 - Krishna, K T1 - Impact of lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic and its advantages YR - 2020/10/1 JF - International Journal of Health & Allied Sciences JO - Int J Health Allied Sci SP - 316 OP - 321 VO - 9 IS - 4 UL - https://www.ijhas.in/article.asp?issn=2278-344X;year=2020;volume=9;issue=4;spage=316;epage=321;aulast=Nadig;t=5 DO - 10.4103/ijhas.IJHAS_77_20 N2 - COVID-19, caused by novel coronavirus SARCoV2, is a contagious disease, emerged in the end of December 2019, at Wuhan seafood market, China. This disease is spiraling like a wildfire and rapidly spreading worldwide, overburdening the health system with newly infected cases. As of April 25, 2020, a total of 2,846,536 COVID-19-positive cases and 197,859 total deaths were reported across the globe. This epidemic has exponential growth characteristics in the absence of specific vaccine and treatment for COVID-19. Many countries across the world including India, the USA, China, Italy, and German are implementing the lockdown measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic and to maintain the infection at manageable levels. Keeping the prospectus of future such pandemics, we reviewed; what is lockdown and containment? Does it works? What are the advantages of lockdown and containment in cotrolling the spread of the virus?. The present review answers these questions and tries to spread light on the impact of lockdown. Our review concludes that the implementation of lockdown has forced many countries in flattening the epidemic curve and strengthening the health-care system and improves the environmental quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. ER -