Anyone can get COVID-19 the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. But certain factors make people more vulnerable to the deadly viral disease. These include old age obesity and underlying health conditions such as heart or lung disease hypertension diabetes etc. While there’s limited evidence on COVID-19 infection in tuberculosis (TB) patients it is anticipated that people ill with both TB and COVID-19 may have poorer treatment outcomes. Therefore the World Health Organization (WHO) has been stressing on monitoring and responding to TB prevention and care during the coronavirus pandemic. For a similar reason the Union Health Ministry has recommended