Write a letter to your friend describing the recent political changes in your country and people feeling about it.
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Answer:POLITICS AND NATION
How Indians are dealing with the onset of a deadly coronavirus outbreak
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This virus has been a great leveller, affecting people irrespective of their wealth and social status.
By Malini Goyal, ET BureauLast Updated: Mar 15, 2020, 09:53 AM IST17
We have been here before. Almost. A long time ago, in 1918, the Spanish Flu infected 500 million people and killed an estimated 10-50 million, devastating the global economy.
A century later, the world was supposedly making massive progress and scientists focusing on higher order problems — like blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. Armed with path-breaking tools such as gene editing, AI and big data, human beings were learning to play god, creating designer babies and disrupting death.
And then, coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the China-born microbe that inflicts infectious respiratory illness, brings the world to its knees. The pandemic is still unravelling and it is too early to gauge its ultimate human and economic impact. Already, an unprecedented global lockdown is underway. Schools, colleges, malls, theatres and much more have been shut. Conferences and sports events such as IPL have been called off. Countries are tightening borders and suspending visas en masse, leaving airports empty, flights cancelled and many stranded in a world of globetrotters. With the world factory China as the epicentre, the global manufacturing machinery is grinding to a halt. Remote working and social distancing are the new buzzwords as workplaces struggle to carry on business.
The virus has been a great leveller, affecting people irrespective of their wealth and social status.
Amid jittery stock markets, the super-rich are reportedly jetting off to disaster bunkers to isolate and protect themselves. Geographically, too, Covid-19 is spreading wildly.
Over 120 countries — from developed nations such as the US and Italy to developing ones such as India and Iran — are reeling from its attack.
The virus could spread the economic contagion, far and deep. Early estimates from the UN Conference on Trade and Development suggest it will knock off an estimated $1 trillion from the global economy in 2020.
Globally, 142,320 people are infected and 5,388 dead. Experts say the virus is at the early stages of its journey in India. While the country took sweeping measures fairly early, high population density, risk of intergenerational transfer in joint families and inadequate medical facilities are risk factors. The nation is bracing for tough times. Whatever the trajectory, in a world where globalisation is anyway in retreat, expect the pandemic to reshape the society, economy, politics and human behaviour in the long term.
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