Moral theories can assist healthcare providers to substantiate and replicate the ethical pronouncements that they make. Moral theories are distinct from other theories as they can benefit us to validate the ethical judgments that we make. Ethical response and moral principles revolve around major theories comprising Deontological and Utilitarian perspectives, Kantianism, and Virtue theory. In ethics, from the deontological perspective, an action is considered morally good because of some of its characteristics instead of the product of the action is morally good
Key words: Covid-19, deontology, ethics, isolation, lockdown, pandemic, utilitarianism.
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