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Research Title: The Effectiveness of Quarantine Protocols in Managing Localized Transmission of Virus during Pandemic

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Research Title: The Effectiveness of Quarantine Protocols in Managing Localized Transmission of Virus during Pandemic

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The study aims to discover the effectivity of the quarantine protocols implemented by the government to the reduction of the pandemic. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is an infectious disease cause by a new strain of coronavirus. SARS-CoV, the cause of the SARS outbreak in 2003, is also closely related to coronaviruses isolated from bats. The first suspected case in the Philippines was on the 22nd of January 2020, since then, 390k were reported as of November 2. However, the main source of the virus was first reported in humans in Wuhan, China. All SARS-CoV-2 isolated from humans to date are closely related genetically to coronaviruses isolated from bat populations, specifically, bats from the genus Rhinolophus. With the help of WHO (World Health Organization), and Department of Health here in the Philippines, they are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. The researchers aim to prove if the quarantine protocols implemented by the government is effective in reducing the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Isolation and Quarantine are two of the most established infectious prevention techniques breathing and would almost certainly be utilized in an instance during a pandemic. While the expressions "isolate," "quarantine," and "necessary hospitalization" are frequently utilized reciprocally, they are, actually, particular. the chic meaning of isolate is that the limitation of the exercises of asymptomatic people who are presented to a sickness, during or preceding the quantity of coherence, to forestall infection transmission. Conversely, disconnection is that the division, for the amount of coherence, of known contaminated people in such places and under such conditions on forestall or limit the transmission of the specialist. Isolate and Quarantine is likewise cultivated by different methods, including binding individuals to their own homes, confining travel out of an influenced region, and keeping individuals at a designated office. Whatever strategies are utilized, it is essential to treat indicative, possibly contaminated, and non-uncovered populaces in an unexpected way. for instance, it'd be unseemly to put tainted people inside the indistinguishable room as the individuals who are just perhaps uncovered.

Isolation and Quarantine are the chief unpredictable and disputable general wellbeing powers. On condition that they include a gigantic hardship of a person's freedom inside the name of general wellbeing, isolate and segregation uncover the strain between the interests of society in securing the soundness of its residents and subsequently the common freedoms of people, similar to protection, non-separation, opportunity of development, and independence from discretionary detainment. In spite of the fact that these common freedoms are ensured by both all-inclusive and territorial basic liberties assertions and shows, huge scope general wellbeing dangers can require uncommon measures by the govt. Coercive general wellbeing powers like isolate and disengagement could likewise be truly defended if the general wellbeing interests of society are painstakingly adjusted against the opportunity of the person. To finish the adjusting assessment, the advantages to the last open ought to exceed the weights or damages that an isolate may put on people. also, every nation should suit the Siracusa standards, a gaggle of universally settled upon lawful rules that build up the conditions under which limitations on common freedoms are advocated. These standards hold that limitations of freedom ought to be lawful, proportionate, important, and achieved by the littlest sum prohibitive methods are sensibly accessible.

Measures as coercive as isolate and detachment should possibly be utilized when a sickness is known through broad logical examination to be infectious and can be restricted to individuals who have regardless of everything been presented to the illness. In instances of logical vulnerability, be that as it may, asset and time limitations can make it fundamental for the legislature. to require activity without performing clinical testing on every person. there are likewise circumstances, for instance, during which the accessibility of precise tests and skilled clinical staff is restricted. However, at any rate the state's capacity ought to be practiced reasonably and never as a trick for segregation. during an emergency circumstance, sensible doubt upheld known contact with the pandemic infection could likewise be adequate to give an isolate or disconnection request. Notwithstanding, to validate the authenticity of the measures taken, the choice to utilize prohibitive estimates must be made in an open, reasonable, and genuine way.

The last open includes an option to realize the genuine general wellbeing explanations behind confining freedom. General wellbeing specialists ought to completely and genuinely unveil their explanations behind activity and grant network cooperation. Such straightforwardness will upgrade trust and furthermore the acknowledgment of the proposed control measures.

Isolation and Quarantine should be voluntary at whatever point conceivable, and, when that is unthinkable, they should be upheld by the most diminutive sum nosy methods accessible. Examination inside the outcome of SARS indicated that people comprehended and acknowledged the requirement for prohibitive measures. Many saw it as their obligation and were happy to forfeit their entitlement to opportunity of development. In any case, if governments anticipate full willful consistence, the options should be made in an open and reasonable way, and society ought to guarantee that people who are isolated or segregated get sufficient mind and don't endure unjustifiable financial weights.

At the point when the assurance of a network's wellbeing necessitates that singular freedom and self-rule be confined, the rule of correspondence obliges society to give those influenced the necessities of life. During quarantine, these necessities would incorporate being housed in sheltered, compassionate conditions and accepting top notch clinical consideration and mental help. Late investigations have affirmed that isolate forces some genuine budgetary and mental difficulties on the influenced people. Around 30% of people isolated for SARS, for instance, experienced posttraumatic stress problem and discouragement.

Distributive justice requires that officials limit the extent to which the personal and economic burdens of a public health threat fall unfairly upon individual citizens. A lack of resources and amenities should be addressed in the most fair and equitable possible way. Governments as well as national and international organizations should stockpile medical supplies and food. A pandemic will require solidarity among nations and collaborative approaches that set aside traditional values of self-interest and territoriality.

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The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the government’s quarantine protocol to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic, such rules and regulations were implemented. Our study will serve as a guide for the government and front-liners to know whether the quarantine protocols being implemented are effective or not. The study would be significant not only to those health workers and government, but as well as to the community people in Biñan, Laguna.

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This study aims to specifically answer the following research questions:

1.     How does the following factors affect the preparedness and capacity to manage a pandemic?

a.      Familiarity with guidelines

b.     Preparedness evaluations

2.     What happens when a person is quarantined?

3.     How effective is quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control the spread of virus?

4.     What are the benefits of quarantine or isolation?

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This research study can be beneficial to the following:

1.     The Community, although we couldn’t get the assurance on the compliance of everyone living in the community, community-based health care protocols for the pandemic help maintenance of the community and the people within it just like, social distancing, mandatory temperature checks and quarantine reduce the change of the spreading of the virus in the community.

2.     The Citizens, this study benefits on proper protocol and to ensure safety and wellbeing of each and every citizen of Binan city, and to address clearly the causes and effects of the current pandemic or the Covid-19 situation that could help a plenty amount of lives from getting infected by this. Protocols like masks and face shields somehow reassure the safety of the citizens from infecting each other.

3.     The Public Workers, for our public workers that are well respected, for they are our Front liners. This study will benefit them on keeping safe during working hours since they have contact to numerous people in work  which makes them vulnerable to the virus, this teaches and spreads awareness towards their after shifts just like disinfecting their clothes, items and themselves before going home to their families to minimize infecting their family.

4.     The Government, the government of the city holds the authority if the local quarantine protocols needs to be strengthened so they must know these protocols to know which of these must be implied to the current situation of the city to help contain the virus and eliminate threats where in the virus can furthermore spread in the city.

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This study tackles about the effect of the quarantine protocols implemented by the government to the reduction of the pandemic. The coverage of our study is to identify the effect of the lockdown to the community members living at the city of Biñan, Laguna. The study will be limited only to the coronavirus pandemic and will not cover the other viruses and pandemics happened in the past such as HIV/AIDS pandemic (2005-2012), flu pandemic (1968), sixth cholera pandemic (1910-1911), and many more. Moreover, the scope of our study can be helpful for us to determine whether the government’s quarantine protocols are truly effective during this time of crisis.

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