56 Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, April-June 2021, Vol. 15, No. 2 Assessment of Anxiety during COVID-19 Pandemic among General Population of India Anamika Gautam 1 , Poonam Ahlawat 2 , Shikha Sharma Thapa 3 1 Nursing Tutor, 2 Assistant Professor, 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugram, Haryana, India Abstract Introduction -The coronavirus COVID-19 illness makes a very unpredictable future the main psychological effect is elevated rates of anxiety, because of pandemic and the lockdown. Aim -The aimed of the study was to Assess the level of anxiety during COVID-19 among general population in India. Methodology -A Snowball sampling technique was used to collect the samples from different state and union territory of India. Total 829 participants respond and enrolled themselves in the study. Participants in the study belong to 27 states or union territories of India and majority of them are from Delhi. Result-Most of the Participant in the study was female (54%), graduate (51%), age between 18-28 (60%) and Hindu (89.3%). Half of the participant were having minimal anxiety (57.1%) nearly one fourth of the participant were having Mild anxiety (28.5%) and least number of participants were having Moderate anxiety (11.0%) and Severe anxiety (3.5%).There was no signifcant association of Anxiety scores with Socio-demographic variable except place of stay, suffering from any health problem and During lockdown period time spent in watching news related to corona (COVID-19) on mobile, laptop, television etc. Conclusion-The study concluded the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cause anxiety among the people. Understanding the risk to yourself and people you care about can make an outbreak less adverse effect on mental and physical health of the people Keywords- Anxiety, COVID-19, General population of India Original Article Corresponding Author: Anamika Gautam Nursing Tutor, Department of Mental health nursing, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugram, Haryana, 122006 Mobile- +917011228434 gautamanamika0494@gmail.com Introduction A public health emergency of worldwide concern- novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbroke as a global health threat. Coronaviruses named due to the outer fringe of covering proteins resembling crown are a family of enveloped RNA viruses. 1 The new disease caused by the coronavirus; it was named as Novel coronavirus. In February, the World Health Organization gave the name COVID-19. The CO stands for corona, VI is for virus. And D means disease and the19 is stand for 2019, the year the disease frst appeared in China. 2 The war between Virus and Human started when Corona virus outbreak came to light on December 31, 2019 when Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China informed the World Health Organisation about group of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City because of unexplained cause. 3 Subsequently the disease spread like Firewood in China, and to the rest of the world.