COVID-19 pandemic causes health and economic crisis across the world. The world is divided again with different strategies and disparity is more prominent. Where do we want to see the world after COVID-19?
The coronavirus pandemic has already claimed over half a million lives across the world, with case numbers continuing to rise. Global cases are more than 13 M & USA has more than 3.4 M cases. Brazil tops 1.8 M cases and India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. EU forecasts deeper recession than previously expected. It’s like a hidden tsunami to global economy. It hampers food production, food processing and even the storage of food. Developed countries like USA or UK can manage but it will be too difficult for poor and low income countries to cope up with this global crisis.
A report by Oxfam warns that the hunger crisis worsened by the pandemic could kill more people each day than the infection itself.
An estimated 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to Covid-19 by the end of the year, Oxfam said. By comparison, data by Johns Hopkins University shows that the pandemic's deadliest day so far was April 17, when 8,890 deaths were recorded.
12 July 2020, CNN and 14 July 2020, JHU
Unfortunately, they could be new waves. Even without this event, I think the economic crisis is important everywhere and it will take years to overcome it.
Thanks dear Matteo Nioi and what's your expectations about global unity or politics?
Dear Muhammed Ashraful Alam unfortunately I have no political competences but I can tell you that in Italy we experienced a lack of solidarity especially in the initial period of the crisis. It is perceived as greater the distance existing not only between state and state but also between individual states and international institutions that before the crisis were very respected. For example, before the crisis, who could have guessed that the US would have left the WHO?
Yes, I do agree dear Matteo Nioi and disparity will be more visible day by day. I wanna see global unity and a peaceful world after the pandemic in spite of all divisions and crisis. As a person it's my expectation towards the global leaders and policy makers to try for peace only.
Muhammed Ashraful Alam Global unity and solidarity need now to fight this pandemic and hope this will come true.
WHO thinks so dear Jitendra Kumar and the current scenario is not satisfactory at all and what do you want to see after the crisis?
Dear Muhammed Ashraful Alam in my opinion global unity is distant true in the current scenario if think realistically and nothing bad in hoping.
Yes, expectation and reality is not the same and always there is a gap between them. And UN/WHO should be well prepared to reduce the gap.
The scenario after the COVID-19 pandemic is very likely to be very similar to that which occurred after the Spanish flu. History can teach us many lessons. As G. Vico said: the succession of events occurs according to the cyclical characteristic of historical development.
I do agree dear Pietro Emanuele Napoli but we want to see a peaceful world after the pandemic crisis and UN should think it now how to minimize the gaps.
interaction behaviors will change, economies will be down and countries will take time to recover to normal
We can guess the crisis dear Joan Nyika but how do we overcome the crisis and where do we want to see our world?
from where I stand in a developing countries it is not how to over after the pandemic but overcome the pandemic itself. You think the situation will be better but it is becoming worse by the day
I do agree dear Joan Nyika and we should think more about the adaptation otherwise it will be again failed like preparedness to combat the pandemic. We have to die without food then.
A vaccine shall be introduced soon which shall have a political aspect going thorough different countries
The pandemic is still roaring and no sign of control yet.
Global cases are now more than 15 million and died more than 630,000 from COVID-19. USA has more than 4 million cases, Brazil tops 2.2 million and India has more than 1.2 million cases. Russia has nearly 800,000 COVID-19cases. USA, Latin America and South Asia are still hot spots, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The US is the global leader in Covid-19 cases, followed by Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa.24 July, CNN
More than 68,000 new coronavirus cases in the US in 24 hours and India reports 49,000 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours. Japan records highest daily infection rate since the beginning of the outbreak.
24 July, CNN
Thanks for sharing dear Sujan Mahapatra Matteo Nioi Pietro Emanuele Napoli
In low income countries, poverty will be more problematic than the pandemic. There will be a surge in communicable diseases (HIV, TB, Malaria, diarrhoea etc) as well as non-communicable diseases. Mental health problems will be another major challenge. New strains of SARS-CoV-2 might emerge as well. So the basically the "new normal" post pandemic is saddled with public health as well as socio-economic challenges
Though there are possibilities of economic recession, I hope despite all, the world would concentrate on the environmental protection, preservation of biodiversity, prevention of climate changes, more research on the prevention of the emergence of new infectious diseases.