COVID 19

 Challenges for containing virus spread

1. Elections
2. Mass Protests
3. scaling up of long distance Travel
4. Infection spreading at workplace and commercial centers
5. careless people infringed other citizens’ right to life by ignoring the use of masks and social distancing, while various protocols had failed to stop the virus spreading “like wildfire" due to lack of implementation

Negative Impacts of Covid:

1. On Campus education suspended
2. many senior citizens unable to access periodic health care
3. Economy facing recession and job loss
4. Loss of livelihood and increase in Hunger and Malnutrition
5. Difficulty in institutional Delivery
6. Mortality
7. Increased Health Burden and increased Prejudice
8. Education impacted
9. Increase in Domestic Violence
10. Discrimination against COVID Patient
11. Psychological stress and Increased Depression
12. may Increase in Child marriages 
13. Decline in  demand for both consumption and capital goods
14. Decline in supply of goods and stock pilling of goods in apprehension of a lockdown
15. Delayed Justice
16. Disastrous impact on poors by combining effect of Poverty, job loss, malnutrition, and lack of social security, housing facility and lack of public transportation.
17. Cybercrime goes up.

Impacts:

1. Techological upgradation
2. inculcation of good habbits
3. decreased Environmental Pollution
4. Cleaner Air and water
5. Educational transformation in the country
6. promotion of Indian culture of Namaste
7. Reforms in PDS
8. Boost to IT and services sector
9. increased in E- transactions
10. Low accidents
11. Increased awareness about health, yoga and meditation
12. Police not using Alcometer instead blood test to check drunk n drive during new year.
13. 93% dip in Drink and Drive case on New year
15. A key institution in implementing the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), the IBBI (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India ) has  moved to the electronic mode for most of its engagements with stakeholders and has recalibrated important regulations.

The government was also mandated by the Court, under Article 21, Right to life, to ensure that it invests sufficiency in its hospitals and those of the local administration, acknowledging the right to health and affordable treatment for all

Way Forward:

1. Inculcating good Hygiene habbits as new Normal Routine
2. Using masks and Sanitisers
3. essential for States and all citizens to accord the Home Ministry’s guidelines on “Surveillance, Containment and Caution”
5. Governments should seize the opportunity presented by the pandemic and set up a public health backbone in all States, in cities and rural areas, to do the monitoring. This will have the twin advantage of rapidly advancing universal health coverage through health and wellness centres.