COVID 19 PORTEND FOR INDIA
COVID-19 BIOLOGICAL PANDEMIC OF 2020 AND PORTEND FOR INDIA Backdrop Worldwide H1N1/09 Swine flu pandemic in 20009-10, MERS Coronavirus outbreak in 2012, Ebola Virus disease in 2013, and Zika Virus in 2015 were the warning signals of a major biological pandemic waiting to happen, which the world ignored at its peril. The early 2020 global pandemic caused by Covid-19 virus outbreak has resulted in almost half the population of the world being quarantined or under lockdown, inducing the largest global economic slowdown. The unfolding events have caught all nations and agencies by surprise, revealing the unexpectedness of such a dramatic scenario. Higher security, administrative and medical setups of Indian state were equally caught off guard, as the much vaunted Disaster Management plans and mitigation infrastructure proved to be inadequate. Much as during the Kargil war, it was the steel shown by the administrative, security and medical, junior leadership at district ...