India, April 13 -- From I have flu like symptoms. Do I have coronavirus? to Can we contract COVID-19 from Made in China' products?, doctors are flooded with anxious queries that cover the serious-to-downright-silly spectrum.

With physical checks out of the reckoning, except in emergencies and that too in hospitals, the telephone has replaced the stethoscope and doctors are busy attending to calls by panic-stricken patients trying to come to grips with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe.

The usual queue at clinics and hospitals might have disappeared, but doctors are as busy as ever and helplines on television, hospitals and social media are buzzing.

The questions are many and bewildering in range, doctors said.

The most commo...