How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

India, which has the second-largest population in the world is suffering severely from COVID-19 disease. By May 18th, India investigated ∼1 lakh (0.1million) infected cases from COVID-19, and as of 11th July the cases equalled 8 lakhs. Social distancing and lockdown rules were employed in India, which however had an additional impact on the economy, human living, and environment. Where a negative impact was observed for the economy and human life, the environment got a positive one. How India dealt and can potentially deal with these three factors during and post COVID-19 situation has been discussed here.

Spatiotemporal variability of COVID-19 pandemic in relation to air pollution, climate and socioeconomic factors in Pakistan

“…Meanwhile, numerous studies focused on the contribution of climatic factors on COVID-19 transmission over the world with different methods. It can be seen in several studies from China ( Shi et al, 2020 ; Xie and Zhu, 2020 ) USA ( Bashir et al, 2020 ), Norway, Germany (F. Wu et al, 2020 ), Brazil, Mexico ( Biktasheva, 2020 ), Turkey and many others around the world ( Ghosh et al, 2020b ; Sobral et al, 2020 ) are not clear on COVID-19 distribution with climatic factors and the WHO emphasized that new findings are urgently required to quantitatively estimate how climatic conditions and respirable particle pollutant (PM 2.5 ) influence the spread of COVID-19.…”

“Update vision on COVID-19: Structure, immune pathogenesis, treatment and safety assessment”

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Assessment of stress level in urban area’s during COVID-19 outbreak using critic and topsis: A case of Indian cities

“…Some of the studies that can be useful for analyzing the COVID-19 situation in India includes, Bhatnagar and Poonia [33], Singh et al [34], Kumari et al [35], Bhatnagar et al [36], Ghosh et al [37], Majumdar et al [38] and Singh and Avikal [39].…”

“…This caused lot of trouble for people as almost all local transports in urban areas are hauled and show any signs of resuming in the near future. During this phase, people found themselves with no personal vehicle to travel [37]. Imagine something which was the lifeline of a city was immediately put to a sudden halt.…”