 This is Dr. Sridhar. I am consultant cardiologist in Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road. We are in the midst of Corona pandemic. We all know that this pandemic is going to stay for a few more months if not forever. Ultimately we are going to beat this pandemic as any other pandemic in the past. The slogan for World Heart Day this time is use heart to beat cardiovascular disease. I think we are together with the help of the technology, with the help of the assistants, by the hospital authorities, with the help of care and compassion. We are going to beat this Corona pandemic. Heart has its own component of diseases worsened by the Corona infection. There are a lot of other risk factors also which affect the heart which are much more important like diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and more than that any of the symptoms. Just because we are in the pandemic we cannot ignore all these risk factors and not to take care of them, not to visit the hospital for any of the important symptoms like chest pain, palpitation or breathlessness that can prove to be counterproductive. Here in Manipal Hospital we have taken a lot of care to segregate the patients, maintain social distancing, use face masks, sanitization so that you don't mingle or get hospital-acquired infections in general and particularly Corona that is rest assured. So what my request is or rather advice is don't ignore the symptoms of heart diseases and the risk factors of heart disease just because you are in the pandemic to avoid medical care that may be much more a bad decision rather than not coming to the hospital. All viral infections can have catastrophic effects on the heart just because we know more about Corona we are more concentrating on the heart because Corona virus can affect the muscles of the heart in the form of myocarditis. It can cause heart attack or any other manifestation because of the pro thrombotic state because the Corona infection favors more clot formation anywhere in the body. So the incidence of heart attack where the cornerstone of problem is clot formation can be high and direct infection of the Corona to the muscle of the heart called myocarditis can give rise to malignant abnormal contractions of the heart at aberrant rates called ventricular arrhythmias or ventricular tachycardia which can result in sudden cardiac death. So it is very important whether you are a cardiovascular patient in its entire entity or you are a cardiovascular patient with Corona it is at most important to take the risk factors very seriously address the risk factors and also take appropriate treatment after visiting the hospital to address the risk factors as well as the symptoms you may be going through to all the patients of cardiovascular diseases. Happy World Heart Day.