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The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) originated in China has now covered around 213 countries globally. It has posed health calamities which have threatened the world with the emergence. Owing to the number of confirmed cases still rising every day, it has now become a phase of an international health emergency. Sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought global declines in the commodity process. This has majorly affected the demand as well as supply of the commodities. The oil market has been severely affected due to the outrageous collapse in the demand majorly due to travel restrictions which has also caused the steepest decline in oil prices. The prices of both precious and industrial metals have also fallen, although the price drop is less than that of oil prices. The agriculture industry is one of the least affected so far by this pandemic due to its indirect relation with economic activities. However, the ultimate impact of COVID-19 pandemic will greatly depend on the severity and duration of its outspread, but it is expected to have long-lasting implications.

The outbreak of novel and recent coronavirus disease 2019, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has made an emergency throughout the world. In India, the outspread of the pandemic was observed on 3 March 2020, and after that exponential growth in the cases was observed in the country. Owing to the widespread transmission, high population density, high testing capacity and ineffective treatment, a continuous rise in cases was observed due to the pandemic in India. In this paper, we have discussed the trend and spread of COVID-19 spread in India with time, history of initial confirmed cases, the impact of phased manner lockdown, age- and gender-wise trend of cases and comparison of cases with the other most affected countries. The study uses exploratory data analysis to describe the current situation of COVID-19 cases in India till 16 August 2020, with the help of data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (GOI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). As of August 16, the total number of confirmed cases in India crossed 2.5 million marks with over 50,000 causalities. With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), the total recoveries have crossed the 1.8 million mark with a recovery rate of more than 70% and case fatality rate of 1.94% which is maintained below the global average and is on a continuous positive slide. The study also enlightens the preventive and stringent measures taken by India to combat the COVID-19 situation along with the future prospects. The GOI is following its proactive and preemptive approach for management, prevention and containment of COVID-19 in collaboration with the WHO. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10668-020-00963-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Introduction and background:Haemophilia is an X-linked inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots. It results in spontaneous uncontrolled bleeding. Maximum of its manifestation are acute and require immediate intervention. Therefore this study is aimed at focusing on impact of telemedicine in emergency management of haemophilia in remote areas. Materials and methods: At Multicentric HIH centres the patients are prescribed with homoeopathic medicines as per the symptom similarity which is the base for homoeopathic treatment, and given constitution medicines in Fleiss kappa manner, on monthly basis. Patients are provided with emergency kits which consist of around 30 medicines which have been formulated considering haemorrhagic diathesis, and articulation problems, oedema, ecchymosis, pain, inflammation, bleeding, tenderness etc. This tool employed in telemedicine in remote areas to manage acute conditions on the proper time.Result: Total number of interactions of these patients with a team of HIH is 22926, out of which 43.59% was telephonically managed emergencies. In Thane, Surat and Amravati, around 75% of interactions are dealt with the use of social media that is17722 emergencies have been managed telephonically. Conclusion:Telemedicine has efficiently helped to manage and control acute episodes of people with haemophilia and thereby increasing their quality of life as well as the quality of healthcare with homoeopathic medicines.

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