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authors: Nath, Ravindra; Gupta, Neeraj Kumar; Gupta, Nitesh; Tiwari, Poornima; Kishore, Jugal; Ish, Pranav
title: Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on Tuberculosis notification
date: 2021-08-12
journal: Indian J Tuberc
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.08.007
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doc_id: 816417
cord_uid: 145wcpi4

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To The Editor

With the emergence of COVID-19 as a pandemic in January 2020, India has witnessed two waves of the pandemic. The second wave was worse in terms of magnitude and severity of disease, bearing severe constraints to the overburdened healthcare system. COVID Pandemic has affected all walks of life but its impact has been profound on the vulnerable groups such Figure 1 is that due to intensified efforts of TB Care workers & strong commitment towards TB Elimination, India was successfully able to reach the pre-COVID level of notified cases by the end of 2020. The second wave in 2021 has created a similar challenge, but with the added advantage of lessons learnt from managing TB Cases during a similar situation last year. It is not hard to imagine that with all the steps taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis, India can not only achieve the pre-COVID level of notified cases but even beyond that!

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