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corona virus, th st 65 he he PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL O F RESEARCH | Volume - 10 | Issue - 03 |March - 202 1 | PRINT ISSN No. 2250 - 1991 | DOI : 10.36106/paripex India is a festival loving country where so many festivals are celebrated on mass scale with traditions and joy. Deepawali is the biggest festival and is celebrated for five days, this year it started from 13 November 2020 and ended on 17 of November 2020. The festival has its own history of Ramayana, a story of Lord Shri Rama. It is celebrated on returning of Lord Rama after his victory over the King Ravana. The celebration also represents the victory of truth and goodness over Devils powers. People purchase new apparels, furniture, households etc. They worship and show their regards with fire cracking. People of India clean up their houses and decorate with lights. They meet their relatives and friends with lots of sweets and other gifts.

As our observations showed that prior to the festival active cases were lesser in number which may be due to people Fig.3. Average age of infected males after Deepawali taking care of themselves from corona virus and following the preventive measures. But before the festival they were moving a lot in congregated areas for marketing so the number was approximately doubled after the festival. During the purchasing they might have come in contact with infected person who may be asymptomatic; however, as the symptoms of disease may develop after 2 to 14 days, so there were more positive cases after the Deepawali. People might have not followed the strict guide lines of preventive measures.

As far as gender of affected persons is concerned, males were affected more than the females, the number of males were more than twice or thrice on some days, in both prior or after the festival. It may be due to the fact that during the festival the Fig.4. Average age of infected females after Deepawali males migrated more outside their homes in comparison to females, since females have to prepare lots of traditional sweets and snacks at home. Not only during festival season, in general also same pattern is observed in India.

There was not much difference in ages of males and females in any data, which may be due to people were aware of the fact that the age above 55-60 years and below 10 years were at high risk of corona virus, as medical bulletin was regularly alarming through Television, social media and sources. They took care of older people and children by locking them at home.

Figures: Fig.5. Comparison of Average age of infected males and females prior to Deepawali

Fig.1. Average age of males infected prior to Deepawali Fig.6. Comparison of Average age of infected males and females after Deepawali

CONCLUSION: This study was aimed at monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The study reveals that males are more affected by the corona virus as compared to females. The pandemic got more intense after the Deepawali festival, because some people disobeyed the guidelines set by the Indian Government to prevent the corona virus spread. As per our survey reports, it is clear that most of the infected persons belong to 40-50 years of age, because they have working responsibilities of the family so it Fig.2. Average age of infected females prior to Deepawali is suggested that they should vaccinated first. This led to a 66 www.worldwidejournals.com PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL O F RESEARCH | Volume - 10 | Issue - 03 |March - 202 1 | PRINT ISSN No. 2250 - 1991 | DOI : 10.36106/paripex confirmation that congregated places might be one of the banes of corona virus outbreak. The festivals can be celebrated every year all our lives but for that survival should be the first priority. So, people should sincerely take every precautionary measure suggested by the government and WHO.

Acknowledgement: We are thankful to C.H.M.O. Office, Ujjain district India for providing data related to COVID-19 before and after the Deepawali festival.

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