Paper Details

Name: Sarabjit Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2020 & 2021 & 2022 (Combined)
Volume: Volume - 7 and 8 and 9 (Combined Issues)
Page Number: 41-42

Covid 19, the deadliest virus that the humankind has ever witnessed emanated from China’s Wuhan city in the fateful December of 2019. It was declared a pandemic with such a wide reach and appeared to assail its victims with an explosive magnitude that the world could not brace itself enough for the impact. From denials to the humble acceptance of the coronavirus by the governments, it soon horrified the entire world with the havoc it was capable of wreaking and long before the countries could grasp the nature of this deadly infection, they had to form strategies to tackle the lethal outbreak. Lockdowns were imposed from country to country with a view to contain its growth and to flatten the curve. Consequently, economies came to a grinding halt, low-level income groups and those living below the poverty line were the worst-hit. Shortage of the common household supplies and hoarding of the essential items further compounded the misery of the people who were trying to make sense both virus with whatever information was available about it and of the turbulent times they were living in. All were stuck and hence had to embrace what Covid had instore for them. Within a few weeks,