COVID-19:WANT TO KNOW ITS GLOBAL IMPACTS

NOUMAN KHALID
5 min readJan 10, 2021

COVID disease is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus new calls severe acute respiratory syndrome covid-19.

Corona was firstly identified as an outbreak of respiratory illness case in Wuhan CHINA.

On January 30,2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) called the COVID outbreak a global health emergency but due to continuous spreaders of this virus from country to country and by seeing its impact globally WHO declared this virus as pandemic on 11 March 2020.

COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most common symptoms are:

  • Fever
  • Dry cough
  • Tiredness

IMPACTS ON WORLD ECONOMY

Due to coronavirus not only the economy of under developing countries is affected but has also a large amount of effect on the economy of developed countries as well.

Under developing countries have to face a low level loss of health by adapting different strategies to face this outbreak of virus.

Developed countries had to face a high level of loss because developed countries like the U.S.A took this virus not as seriously as it was. But under developing countries like Pakistan took different strategies r to overcome this virus in order to overcome high level loss in upcoming months as compared to other countries

IMPACTS ON UNDER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

As we know, developing countries were already facing different problems which were health problems and financial problems. The people of these countries were already living a hand to mouth life. They were not ready to face this outbreak of virus because large amount of the people of these countries are daily wagers and they only get income on daily basis which only be able to fulfill daily requirements

When the outbreak of the virus took place in these countries it was a very challenging condition for these countries to face this virus. They were not in such condition and had not such resources and the financial state of these countries was also not very strong.

But they had to face that condition. Different countries were not able to control such conditions and in hurry they took immediate steps which put a harmful effect on the country

Indian PM immediately imposed a lock down on the whole country without thinking about its consequences on the life of daily wagers and without knowing its impact on the whole country as a result on next day the whole country came and gathered on the roads and started protesting on roads on that decision of the PM.

As we know the population of India is in billions and the hunger rate of India is also on high level if they impose a sudden lock down in a country than its consequences should be very harmful on whole country but without thinking about these consequences Indian PM imposed lock down in the country due to which they they had to face a large economy loss.

Different countries adopted different strategies some presidents first look over the situation of whole country then took some stand to face this virus

Here we can overlook the steps of the PM of Pakistan whose first priority was daily wagers. He adopted different strategies to face this outbreak; he took different strategies and was not in favor of imposing lock down in a whole country.

The intelligence of the PM and president of any country can be tested in such situations. In such conditions the strategies which PM adapt affects the economy of the whole country.

The strategies which PM of Pakistan applied were appreciable.All the developed as well as under developing countries appreciate PM of Pakistan on his different strategies which he imposed on the country and was proven useful.

IMPACTS ON DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

COVID firstly reported in Wuhan CHINA .As we know China is the second Asian strongest country in the world. Cases reported in China were shortlisted in the starting but it continued to spread in Wuhan but later on it continued to spread from people to people and from country to country due to which the virus also started spreading in neighboring countries.

As the outbreak of this virus was high in Wuhan people started travelling from Wuhan to other cities some people also started leaving the country which were temporarily residential of china started leaving china and started going back to their own countries. As people started traveling from city to city and from country to country the rate of spreading of virus also increased.

In the beginning people were not aware that this virus spreads from people to people or from the environment.

February 6, and February 17 two people were died in California which travelled back from China and were tested positive for coronavirus .

Countries like the U.S.A which is the most powerful country had to face this virus. President of U.S wouldn’t take this virus seriously at first but after some months when the rate of cases in the country started rising in the country then the U.S government started taking this virus seriously.

More than 44 million American lost their jobs and ten million were emerging from staying at home in order to comfort a new normal.

On January 21 , 2020 people came from China to the U.S. The CDC reported that the first case of person to person transmission in the U.S is the husband of a Chicago woman who developed symptoms after coming from China .The economy of U.S and France and other powerful countries like china was fully affected by this outbreak of virus. Presidents of these countries became hopeless after watching this outbreak in countries.

On continuous spreading of this virus at last on January 31, 2020 the U.S government imposed lock down in the country to avoid gathering of people in order to overcome this virus. Because gathering of people was main cause of spreading of virus so all the countries started imposing lockdowns in the country in order to control this virus.

Imposing lock down in the country was not an easy step for the countries because lockdown caused the loss of the economy of the country to a high level but this step was very important to overcome the outbreak of this virus.

At last step by step lockdowns were imposed in different countries to control public gathering if they want to control the virus.

No one knows when the threat of COVID-19 virus will subside, or it will resurface again or undergo mutation that can be even more deadly. There is an unwavering focus on developing effective medications or vaccines.

WHAT WE LEARNED FROM COVID-19

Despite the differences and distance between places, we are battling the same virus and having the same struggles. It’s a reminder of just how our world economy and society are interconnected on many levels, including supply chains and travel.

A recent story about a couple married 51 they two were in a good condition, until the husband aged 74 came down with a cough and was hospitalized diagnosed with COVID-19 and intubated. His wife aged 72 also became ill and her condition progressively worsened

When the doctor told the son that his father didn’t have long to live, he took his mother to the hospital where she was tested positive for COVID-19 , and put the couple together in the same hospital room.

She died within six minutes of her husband’s death.

No matter how well you feel at the moment please follow the instructions given by the doctors and take precautionary measures to avoid a coronavirus attack on you and on your loved ones .

Now we are keenly aware that this moment is what we have. We are finding constructive things to do, making plans and encouraging each other to enjoy today.

While no one knows how long they will live, everyone can recognize how precious life is-every second of it.

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