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Winter 2015

COVID-19

grocery line - distance markers on floor

The year 2019 we all were living normal lives, planning for new year celebration and setting new goals and targets for 2020. Then one days the world started to hear about a disease that had started to spread in China and within days many people were affected with this disease. The disease is called corona virus disease, COVID-19, for short. The patients who has suffered with this disease have flu like symptom, and it can spread very quickly. Soon it has started to cross the boundaries of China and is now affecting people around the world. Within months the whole world was affected with this disease, declared as pandemic by world health organisation.

The COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed many things from shopping, working, going out. This crisis has changed our lives individually but it has also slowed down the economy. The world before that was moving at a high pace, all of a sudden the world came to a halt. This pandemic has affected thousands of peoples, who are either sick or are being killed due to the spread of this disease; vaccines are not available yet. The only way to stop the spread of this disease is to stop people interaction; for this, many countries are locking their population and enforcing strict quarantine to control the spread. COVID-19 has rapidly affected our day to day life businesses, disrupted the world trade and movements.

Our heath care workers are working day and night to fight this. They are the real soldiers in this time. We also have responsibility to follow the precautions so that we can break that spread.

This pandemic has changed our lives and the world completely. We can say that this can be a repairing process for the Mother Nature: everything that was moving very fast all of a sudden with the blink of an eye comes to a stop, traveling, shopping, eating out, big gatherings - everything stopped. We all were lost in that fast paced life; now that momentum has broken. We have a time to explore ourselves, our relationships, even we have seen how people are coming together to participate in charity work. In this time we have to stand together as a nation, we need to act individually and sensibly.