The latest threat of COVID19 pandemic has jolted the whole world and affected every segment of the society, forced people to change their working style which is not so easy for everyone. Medical Editors were no exception and COVID19 pandemic has affected their working as well. While the leading biomedical journals of the world with huge staff and adequate resources were quick to shift to work from home, it was not possible or easy for many journals in the developing, countries. Firstly they did not have the resources to begin with, secondly the lockdowns were announced so suddenly and thirdly most of the staff were not trained to work from home. The result was that manuscript already submitted, could not be processed further in time and got delayed. The peer review process also got disrupted and the normal flow of working could not materialize.
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