Corona: The Development Invader

Corona: The Development Invader

Mansha Sharma, Ajay Kumar Sharma
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7188-0.ch015
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Abstract

Coronavirus has come up as the worst nightmare in the form of a pandemic for progressive sapiens in terms of health, wealth, prosperity, and social wellbeing. To date, coronavirus has mutated to seven different shapes evolving into various variants. The main deliberation of catching the disease is carelessness and negligence of the citizens, and in developing countries like India, population and illiteracy makes it even more difficult to control the disease. However, immunity can be the superhero in fighting against the virus that invades the host. Although a strong immunity is important to fight the disease, the symptoms show at a later stage by the body of a human with a stronger immunity and cases are getting critical in this case. After a long struggle, scientists have come up with vaccines that are 90% efficient and show some side effects. The world is expected to function only if ‘herd immunity' is achieved, but it is expected that wearing masks would be the new normal.
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How Has Corona Affected The Nations?

As soon as the corona virus started to travel, it affected the country’s GDP, especially developing countries like India which grows exponentially, dropped to 3.1%. Imagine a country like USA, which is considered as a leading nation, experienced a downgrade in its GDP during the global pandemic. Therefore, it was evident for developing countries to suffer. In addition to this, not just the GDP of the countries were infected from the virus, the aspects linked to it were tragically affected especially the businesses, crashed and companies had to sell out their shares, the industries had to turn down the outlets or franchise. The circumstances of most affected territories are discussed below:

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