COVID-19: Impact and New Normal

COVID-19: Impact and New Normal

Sonal Kanungo, Dolly Sharma, Alankrita Aggarwal
DOI: 10.4018/IJSPPC.2021010103
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Abstract

The novel corona or COVID-19 disease spread from Wuhan city of China. The virus spread rapidly around the different countries, and now there are 6,040,609 confirmed cases across the globe. People inflected with virus are suffering from respiratory problems, blood clotting, etc. It is evident to be more dangerous for older persons and those who are already facing other serious illnesses. The virus spreads mainly through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose of infected person when he coughs or sneezes. The purpose of this review is to focus on social and economic impact of COVID-19 in India and how the world will change because of this pandemic and what will be the ‘new normal' with and after this pandemic. This deadly virus has put the globe on alert because of its the high mortality rate and expansion of new number of cases rapidly. Until now, four lockdown phases had helped India to prevent the spike in the curve of new cases, but currently the authors are witnessing steeper rise in new corona cases every day.
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2. Impact Of Covid-19 In India

We are confronting mankind's greatest emergency since World War II. Most of the nations to a great extent have been influenced by the Corona Virus Disease illness (COVID-19). Till date, over 6.1 million individuals have been infected by COVID-19 and more than 0.37 million individuals have lost their lives round the globe. In addition to this, billions of individuals have been anguished from the adverse effect of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19.

2.1. Impact on Health

COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus – a type of strain which was earlier not found in people. COVID-19is with and without symptoms, for example, respiratory issues, cough, and fever, which can lead to pneumonia and further to death(Mittal, A., Kumar, D., Mittal, M., Saba, T., Abunadi, I., Rehman, A., & Roy, S,2020).Since COVID-19 is altogether another strain, there is no vaccine for its prevention(Chawla, S., Mittal, M., Chawla M., Goyal, L. M.,2020). The COVID-19 infection has affected maximum the so-called developed countries. It has already killed millions globally (De P. COVID-19, Economic Times, 09 April, 2020).

The entire health system which is concentrating on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and containment of COVID-19, is probably going to lose chances for convenient finding and treatment of different illnesses. Patients with chronic disease, being careful of going out, or confronting troubles in development because of lockdown limitation may neglect to get treatment, winding up with long haul outcome (Grover A and Sharma, 17 April, 2020).The entire focus of health department is shifted towards supply to more manpower, equipment, consumables, and other resources for the safety in the hospital.

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