World Health Organization on ——1—- declared the rapidly spreading corona virus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe. Director-General of the whole said the situation will worsen.
WHO officials also stressed that countries should be implementing a strategic combination of both containment and mitigation measures.The former involves trying to detect and stop known chains of transmission by isolating cases and following and potentially quarantining their contacts. Mitigation involves community-level steps like social distancing and comes into play when the virus is spreading more broadly and transmission chains can’t be tracked. They dismissed questions that such efforts are too costly or resource-intensive, given what countries could face if they do not slow the spread of the disease.

The first case of covid-19 in India was reported on 30 January 2020. And India has second highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the unites states. The outbreak has been declared an epidemic in more than a dozen states and union territories, where provisions of the —-2—, leading to the temporary closure of educational and commercial establishments.

UN report estimated a trade impact of US$348 million on India due to the outbreak, making India one of the 15 worst affected economies across the world. Asian development bank estimated that the outbreak could cause losses of up to US$29.9 billion to India's economy.

With factories and workplaces shut down, many migrant workers were left with no livelihood.They thus decided to walk hundreds of kilometres to go back to their native villages, accompanied by their families in many cases. The central government finally permitted the Indian Railways to launch "Shramik Special" trains for the migrant workers and others stranded.