2. KEY POINTS:
• WHAT IS PANDEMIC?
• CORONAVIRUS
• LOCKDOWN IMPLEMENTATION
• POSITIVE OUTCOMES AND NEGATIVE
OUTCOMES OF PANDEMIC
IMPACT OF PANDEMIC
• VACCINE
• CURRENT SITUATION OF PANDEMIC
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3. WHAT IS PANDEMIC?
A pandemic is
an epidemic of
an infectious
disease that
has spread
across a large
region.
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4. CORONAVIRUS ORGINATION
• Called SARS-coV-2 (SARS- Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome
• 1st identified a human coronavirus in 1965
• SARS emerged in southern china in2002,
spread in 28 countries, 8000 people
infected and 774 died
• MERS (Middle East Respiratory syndrome)
started in Saudi Arabia in 2012
• SARS-coV-2 first identified in Wuhan,
China, in late 2019
• Originated from bats, pangolin, cat, camel
• Transmitted from person to person
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8. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE OUTCOMES
POSITIVE EFFECTS
Improvement of medical system
Minimizing the need of defense
expenditure
Reduction in environmental pollution
Reunion of countries in facing the
pandemic
Reduction in crimes
NEGATIVE EFFECTS
Increase in death rate
Increase in cost of living→decrease in
standard of living
Economic recesson, increase in poverty
line
Economic stagnation
Increased unemployment
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impact OF pandemic
• Lower revenue stream of hospitality
• Fall in GDP
• Worsen of travel and tourism
• Lack lo investment in medical sector
• Livelihood of street vendors hit hard
• Impacted education system
• Starvation deaths
• Effected mental health
10. VACCINES:
• more than 50 vaccines in trial
• WHO approved COVAXIN as safer
• India rolled out a massive coronavirus
vaccination drive using two vaccines,
COVAXIN and COVISHIELD
• Covishield- developed by AStraZeneca and
Oxford University, manufactured by Serum
Institute of India
• Covaxin- developed by Bharath Biotech in
collaboration with Indian council of Medical
research
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