Herd Immunity could save the world from COVID-19!

Abstract

Many issues were pinned-up with all kinds of strategies for controlling this deadly COVID-19 and every strategy has its own consequence. Moreover, these consequences are indeed different in different countries depending upon their circumstances. Thus, as rightly stated, that there is no thumb rule, which cannot be applied to all countries straightforwardly. However, leaving people in the hands of COVID-19 for getting maximum numbers of cases in order to achieve herd immunity is a catastrophe plan in terms of losses of lives as well as economy. Therefore, it is strongly recommend that the World Health Organization must take a decision unanimously, with the representatives from all countries and ensure an effective lockdown for two weeks and then relaxation and identification of hot spots, instead of waiting to develop 50% affected cases for herd immunity.

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