The deadly spread of coronavirus has reached up to 213 countries with the confirmed cases of 12,731,275and death toll 564,8920 till July 11, 2020. This graph is continuously increasing in an unprecedented manner. The spike of COVID 19 cases has created a threat not only to the public health but also an extraordinary pressure on the health infrastructure of each country med. The US, Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Chile, Spain, UK, Mexico, Iran, and Italy are the maximum affected countries. In the middle of February, when the Corona Virus outbreak had started and gripped South Korea, Iran, and Italy, nobody knew that it is going to create havoc across the world. In the early days of COVID, it caused a lot of damage in Italy. Many people died in Italy due to COVID-19. To overbear this challenge, Italy placed its 60 million residents on lockdown. Later on, on March 11th, when WHO declared this outbreak a pandemic, countries were advised to impose lockdown with strict social distancing guidelines to break the chain of transmission. The period of lockdown had been kept 60 to 76 days according to the need of the countries. In India, the first Coronavirus case had been registered on 30 January 2020 in Kerala, when a university student was repatriated from Wuhan to Kerala. When cases surged to 500, PM Narendra Modi called for Janta Curfew on 22nd of March and two days later, a nationwide lockdown had been imposed from 24th March mid-night till 31st May, 2020. It was imposed in four phases. This lockdown had limited movement of all 1.3 billion population of India to their homes. All prior issued tourist visas had been canceled. National and International flights got a halt.
To combat the Novel Corona outbreak in Oman, His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq formed a Supreme Committee (SC). This committee had taken many decisions to control the pandemic in the country such as banning tourist visas for all countries. Along with this, the committee had decided to ban the entry and docking of cruise ships, suspension of classes for all academic institutions, from 15 March to 15th April. All kinds of religious, social, cultural, academic, and sports activities and gatherings have been banned. Mosques had been closed for Friday prayers and people were urged to pray at home. Adding to the further restriction on 18th March, the committee had restricted other nationals’ entry to Oman except for Omani. Nationals’ departure to other countries had been banned as well. By 1st April, road entries and exit points were limited between the governorates. This had limited movement of all 5,108,835 populations. Dhofar municipality had also canceled Salalah Khareef Festival for 2020. The celebration of Eid Ul Fitr and congregation prayers had been banned. Later SC had decided to impose several fines on those, who would be found violating the guidelines issued by the committee such as refrain to wear the mask in public places (OMR 20), violating institutional or home quarantine (OMR 200), breaking or refraining to wear tracking bracelet (OMR 300), organizing any types of gathering or congregation prayer (OMR 1500), Refusal with the closure of the shop which is decided by the committee to remain close (OMR 3000) and attendees of forbidden gathering (OMR 100). At the government level, all the precautions and preparations had been done to ensure public health but due to long periods of lockdown and quarantine and very few economic activities, different types of challenges started to haunt the people.