COVID-19

Part 2


Well, Well, Well

What a roller coaster ride we are having in the world at the moment. The last article I wrote about COVID-19 was on 17th of March and at the time, the number of total cases was around 200,000 and the death was around 7,500. Time has changed. The virus has spread rapidly around the world. Almost a third of the world is under some kind of lockdown. Almost 1.5 million people are infected and around 81 thousand people are dead because of the virus.

The virus started in Wuhan in China and now it has its presence in almost all countries in the world. Wuhan was considered as the epicentre at the beginning (January-late February), however the cases have almost stopped increasing. The total cases in the place of origin is already overshadowed by cases in USA and many European countries. Epicentre of virus is considered as the place having clustered cases and spreading it further in the region and even further. The epicentre of virus has also been jumping form one region to the other. From Wuhan in china, the epicentre shifted to Italy. The virus is spreading real fast in there at the moment. At the same time, New York is the epicentre of virus spread in the USA. The virus has created a harsh situation in NY with almost a third of total cases in USA with most deaths and still growing infection rate.

The impact of corona virus have already started to be seen on economy, mental health and animals that are human dependent. Animals are stated getting starved and are basically roaming for food around streets, snatching food from humans and even attacking humans in different cities in the world which are in lockdown. Economy is definitely getting impacted as sector like aviation, hospitality, retail and tourism industry have already lost huge amount in revenue and million of people are relieved from their work.

Another important thing everyone should be concerned about is fake news, conspiracy theories and racism. With maximum people staying at home, people have a lot of time to think so its is not
surprising that conspiracy theories come out. There is one shocking theory going in Uk. People are burning down 5G tower in a belief that it spreads corona virus. The theory is that the corona virus started in Wuhan, china and the 5G also started initially from wuhan, china. People are connecting these dots, relating corona virus and 5G, and destroying 5G infrastructures in UK. There are many racist behaviour relating asian nationals as the carriers and the main reason for the virus. In addition to that, social media have made it easy for fake news to spread around the world. Social medias have brought us closer but it also has brought these negativity like easy spread of fake news. This is a big issue and is of a huge concern.

To sum up, pandemic like this corona virus are hard to predict. However, we can be prepared. For the moment, lets practice social distancing, stay home and stay safe as much as we can until and unless we have important works to do.

We are yet to see how the situation is going to unfold as a lot of things surrounding this virus is going on.