COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends, Possible Causes, Impacts and Remedies, with Special Reference to India

Abstract

The devastating performance of the COVID-19 all around the world has nodded down the valour of the so called powerful global leaders in terms of their helplessness to defend themselves from its ramifications and fatality. The biological scientists have some answers to its growth and spread and possible health damages. But social scientists have a little to offer in this respect. They can just search for the responsible factors behind its spread and fatality and assess its possible impacts. The present study, thus, attempts to analyse the trends in highly affected countries, finding possible factors for incidence and death, making impact studies for selected countries and growth impacts for special attempts to India. It observes that the factors like net immigration, health expenditure, international flights movements, old age population are responsible for incidence and death rates. The growth impact of India is around loss of INR16 lacs crore if the pre tariff war growth rate is to be ensured and hence 7-8% stimulus packages are recommended through direct demand boosting projects for recovering Indian economy from the stalemate.