How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Aritra Ghosh; Srijita Nundy; Tapas K Mallick

doi:10.1016/j.sintl.2020.100021

How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Sens Int. 2020:1:100021. doi: 10.1016/j.sintl.2020.100021. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Authors

Aritra Ghosh¹, Srijita Nundy², Tapas K Mallick¹

Affiliations

¹ Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK.
² School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; Economy; Environment; Human life; India; Lock down; Social distance.