The Corona Virus and COVID-19 - Recent Developments, Future Pandemics and Repercussions (original) (raw)

While countries prepare for this newest threat to humanity, the novel SARS-CoV2 (known generally as Corona virus) and the induced disease COVID-19, which have swiftly engulfed the whole world within a short span of time, taking a massive toll on human life and wreaking havoc with the global economy, causing more than 1,50,000 deaths and over 2 million infections, and a global financial impact estimated at more than a trillion dollars, and with millions of people laid off so far all over the world, it is time for us on individual basis as well as on state and global bases to realistically figure out the best possible defense, containment and economic recovery strategies. This is not an ordinary threat, nor a momentary stroke of misfortune, we are not sure if the life and world shall be the same once it is over. This is the next greatest and most potent threat which the inhabitants of Earth have ever faced since the 1918 Influenza pandemic (H1N1), the so-called Spanish Flu, which infected nearly a quarter of the global population (500 million people) taking fatal toll on ten percent of that (50 million fatalities), and the World War II with 75 million deaths, with the risk of this pandemic manifold increased than the Spanish flu.