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TopCorona Virus Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020. As of 29 November 2020, more than 62.6 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 1.45 million deaths attributed to COVID-19. (Wikipedia, COVID-19 pandemic)
Although the Coronavirus pandemic has posed numerous challenges to the international economy and our daily lives, we can also observe a lot of creativity and innovation emergent at the national, institutional as well as individual levels within the countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
TopVarious Innovative Approaches To Fight Against Coronavirus
The various technological innovations and scientific approaches developed to face coronavirus pandemic can be arranged into the following categories.
It creates more fright and worries among the masses when some wrong information is spread about the number of deaths, diagnosis, treatment, vaccines, or the decisions made by the government. As a result, there can be widespread confusion among the people and they can start buying and stocking essential commodities, this further result in low availability of the products to the actual needy ones, price rise, display of retaliation on the streets, discrimination, political conspiracies, and so on. In order to avoid all these online business companies like Facebook and Google are guiding people to the correct information given by the World Health Organization. YouTube is also making accurate information available to everybody by creating a transparent scenario and keeping people informed about the right steps to be taken in such situations. These internet giants are united to help National Health Service to fight the spread of fake information about the pandemic.