This paper demonstrates the use of a linear Input-Output (IO) model to estimate the economic losses in India due to COVID-19. The results show that depending on the duration of the lockdown, the Indian economy is likely to face a loss of about 10–31% of its GDP. This method can ...
Migrant workers prepare food by the roadside while waiting to board a special train to their home in Jharkhand during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Jalandhar district of India's northern state of Punjab, May 9, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)...
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While India has managed to slow down the spread of COVID-19 through what is perhaps the world's largest nationwide lockdown, the socio-economic fallout of the decision on the South Asian country of 1.3 billion has been devastating with livelihoods of tens of millions of migrant...
In this paper, we have tried to understand the spreading capability of COVID in India taking into account of the lockdown period. The numbers of confirmed cases are increased in India and states in the past few weeks. A differential equation based simple model has been used to understand ...
To prevent the spread of Coronavirus-19 a complete lockdown was enforced in India by March, 2020. The lockdown led to drastic negative effects on the social and communicative life of people. Among these, children and adolescents have been majorly affected. The study aims to investigate the eff...
In the present situation, the whole world is facing the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, let's talk about nationwide lockdown in India to control the spread of COVID-19. The government relies on social media to observe people's aviews on their policies during the lockdown....
First time in India, total lockdown was announced on 22 March 2020 to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown was extended for 21 days on 24 March 2020 in the first phase. During the total lockdown, most of the sources for poor air quality were stopped in India. In this ...
This strict lockdown has severely curtailed human activity across India. Here, aerosol concentrations of particular matters (PM) i.e., PM10, PM2.5, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), ammonia (NH3) and ozone (O3), and associated temperature fluctuation in ...
Police personnel stop commuters and ask valid reason to come out during lockdown in New Delhi, India, March 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Partha Sarkar) With no economic activity, thousands of poor labourers in India are migrating back to their villages and in the absence of public transport covering th...