India has witnessed the emergence of the COVID-19 with a concourse of complex economic and public health challenges. The Government recognized the threat posed by COVID-19 and accordingly responded in a stratified fashion in tandem with the rapid progression of the pandemic across the States. The Indian response can be dissevered into three intersecting phases like controlling the borders to limit international travel, curb the spread of the disease within the country through primary and secondary contacts of travelers and nationwide lockdown to curtail local/ community transmission of the...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the global response to contain the disease are unprecedented, as it shatters global health with crippling impacts irrespective of geographic realm. The global public health arena is in deep trouble, as the past few decades have witnessed an astonishing outbreak of pandemics and epidemics geared by globalization, climate change and population explosion. India was initially stamped by lower COVID-19 case numbers and fewer deaths compared with numbers in many developed countries. The lockdown in India paves the way for life-changing and disrupting experiences....

The emergence of COVID-19 has turned into a cataclysm with prodigious repercussions on life and livelihood. As pandemic preparedness is recognized as a pivotal part of disaster preparedness systems at the national and international arena, globally it took a few weeks to acclimatize with the attributes of what was unfolding gravely. Timely interventions by the World Health Organization and other international partners have resulted in a coordinated public health response driven by real-time, reliable and actionable outcomes. The pandemic has propelled the world into an economically paralyzed...