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. 2020:1:100021.
doi: 10.1016/j.sintl.2020.100021. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Aritra Ghosh  1 , Srijita Nundy  2 , Tapas K Mallick  1
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How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Aritra Ghosh et al. Sens Int. 2020.

Abstract

India, which has the second-largest population in the world is suffering severely from COVID-19 disease. By May 18th, India investigated ∼1 lakh (0.1million) infected cases from COVID-19, and as of 11th July the cases equalled 8 lakhs. Social distancing and lockdown rules were employed in India, which however had an additional impact on the economy, human living, and environment. Where a negative impact was observed for the economy and human life, the environment got a positive one. How India dealt and can potentially deal with these three factors during and post COVID-19 situation has been discussed here.

Keywords: COVID-19; Economy; Environment; Human life; India; Lock down; Social distance.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Cumulative total COVID-19 cases in India till 11th July 2020 [27].
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Nitrogen dioxide emission before and after a lockdown in India [90].
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