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Pandemic and Challenges for

Socio-Economic Issues

In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the country affected by the outbreak nor have come into the
global population by hitting the health of individuals. contact of a person infected by the virus. In this case, a
It is a highly contagious disease and has caused a high lockdown becomes highly important as any person can
rate of mortality particularly in high risk individuals. spread the virus, regardless of their travel history or the
The pattern of infection and mortality rates has varied people they have come in contact with
significantly amongst the countries. Surprisingly, more
The fourth stage of an outbreak is when an infection
affluent countries with greater healthcare resources have
becomes endemic in some countries and keeps resurfacing
been more affected by it and have seen higher mortality
round the year, like malaria and dengue in India. This is a
rates, compared to less affluent countries like India. We will
stage that the Indian government has taken into account
discuss some causes and effects .
in its plan to tackle the virus, the IE report states.
Four stages of an outbreak:
Coronavirus India July 6 Highlights: India’s Covid-
An IE report explains all the four stages of a pandemic. 19 vaccination coverage exceeds 36 crore;
The first stage, according to the report, is when cases of an An SBI report says that the third wave of the new
infection are imported into a country which was not the COVID infections will hit India next month in August. The
source of the infection. report says that the third wave will peak in the month of
September. The report comes at a time when many people
The second stage of an outbreak is when there are cases
have resumed holiday travel. Recently a photo went viral.
of local transmission in the country, the report explains.
It showed a huge crowd of tourists gathered in Himachal
This means that the person from whom the infection
Pradesh’s Manali. Health experts have warned that the
spread to another person is from the country itself. In this
early ‘unlock’ may prepone the arrival of the third wave.
stage, the trajectory of the virus can be identified from the
With the SBI report making this amply clear, the only way
source to all the infected individuals.
forward is to vaccinate at a much faster speed and urge
Community transmission is the third stage of an people to follow the face mask discipline.
outbreak. In this stage, according to the report, it becomes
hard to track the chain of transmission of the virus in In India, from 3 January 2020 to 11:54am CEST, 8 July
a large number of cases. This means that the virus has 2021, there have been 30,663,665 confirmed cases of
started circulating within the community and can also COVID-19 with 404,211 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 5
infect those individuals who have neither travelled to a July 2021, a total of 357,553,612 vaccine doses have been
administered.
2. Situation in India

Source:World Health Organization
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