Take home message was to have a multidisciplinary team in the ward with ethos of shared responsibility and proactice medical  leadership with openness and transparency.  There is a possibility that antipsychotic medications and nicotine replacement therapies have anti-inflammatory properties.  There were no reported deaths in this patient group who suffered from Covid-19.  Though there was little role for Cariprazine in acute inpatient treatment, it had an important role in treatment of schizophrenia in community settings.