Introduction to the Course

An Overview

Greetings!

I welcome you all to the self-paced Online Micro-Certificate Course on “COVID-19 Consciousness”, on behalf of Vivekananda College, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India. This Micro-Certificate Course is the need of the hour, when the whole world is tired of fighting COVID-19. In-spite of the awareness and lock-downs the victims of COVID-19 is increasing day by day. Where have we gone wrong? It is simply because we take things for granted. This Micro-Certificate Course provides an overview on COVID-19 and advocates the recommendations of WHO. This course brings out the COVID-19 consciousness, recollecting the traces left by COVID-19, creating a personal record of them. The course content is adopted from the official pages of WHO.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as MERS, SARS and the most recent COVID-19. The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease a pandemic, with severe repercussions to human health and global economic activity. Though we undergo severe social and economic restrictions, tackling this disease together is our only option. Let us distance ourselves from this physical reality and get connected and united in the virtual reality to fight COVID-19.

Let me place on record my sincere thanks to the Management, the Secretary and the Principal for permitting me to offer this course. I also thank the Advisory Committee Members: Ms. H. Carmel Sharmila, Dr. S. Mallika, Dr. C. Selvakumar and Dr. K. Rajalakshmi for their valuable suggestions.

This Course is Self-paced. You can complete the course any time between 12 May 2020 and 15 June 2020. Read the course content available in each page thoroughly (Questions are asked only from the course content) and submit the ORIGINAL Video Assignment before appearing for the Course End Exam.

I wish everyone take this course seriously and complete the assignment and test in time. I firmly believe that by the end of the day you will logout with the feel that you have achieved something.

GET ENLIGHTENED THROUGH TECHNOLOGY!

REACH THE WORLD FROM HOME!!

Thank you.

Dr. K. Kaviarasu

Objective

The objective of this course is to reinstigate the sense of COVID-19 consciousness and the pandemics amidst the world population, propagating the recommendations of World Health Organisation on COVID-19, for a better e-tomorrow.