India, which has a robust vaccine development program, not only plans for domestic manufacture of COVID-19 vaccine but also for its distribution in countries that cannot afford to buy expensive vaccines from the Western world. In India, the data emanating from clinical trials of different vaccines...
The present paper is focused on the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on female sex workers (FSWs) in India and the globe. In Indian scenario, it emphasises on historical factors and theoretical frameworks that explicates the ceaseless exploitation of FSWs even before the pandemic. Thi...
COVID-19lockdownophthalmologistsurgeriesIntroduction: The WHO (World Health Organization) declared COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic caused by a novel variant of the corona virus 2019-nCoV, as a worldwide pandemic in 2020. As a preventative step, the Indian government imposed a countrywide lockout ...
Chapter 9 Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India Shweta Khandelwal Abstract While the world is battling the new coronavirus known as SARS-COV-2, public health and nutrition services in India are getting disrupted and derailed. It is pertinent not to overlook the existing gaps in our journey towards...
Introduction World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic [1]. In Indonesia, the first case was found in March 2020 and significantly raised. The disease risks many morbidities and even mortalities [2]. There were 706.837 confirmed cases and 20.994 deaths from March 2020 until ...
India Clean air policy COVID-19 Cities 1. Introduction: context setting2 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought home the interconnectedness between nature and human existence in multiple ways, both in terms of the nature of the pandemic itself as well as in the means adopted to manage it. Governm...
In December 2019, a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was identified in China. This virus spread quickly and in March, 2020, it was declared a pandem
1. Introduction With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments announced shelter-in-place and physical distancing policies. In the absence of a vaccine, such measures remained crucial to stop the spread of the virus. Yet, stringent containment policies may hurt poor regions of th...
Introduction The COVID-19 vaccine has been a miraculous, life-saving advance, offering staggering efficacy in adults, and was developed with astonishing speed. The time from sequencing the virus to authorizing the first COVID-19 vaccine was so brisk even the optimists appear close-minded. Yet, ...
1. Introduction Governments around the world have undertaken a number of measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its consequences. The measures taken by governments ranged from lockdowns and containment measures, work-at-home requirements, school closings, to fiscal stimulus (Hale et...