Covid-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan & Nepal

 

Covid-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan & Nepal 

The whole world is now plagued by an pandemic called corona virus (Covid-19). The virus has 

so far claimed the lives of millions of people and disrupted human lives and livelihoods. 

Suddenly the whole world has just stopped its natural motion. In order to save lives, people had 

to accept confinement in the house.

The ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by

severe acute respiratory syndrome, Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 12 January 2020, 

the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of 

a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan, Hubei, China which was reported to 

the WHO on 31 December 2019.

It was confirmed to have spread to Southeast Asia on 13 January 2020, when a 61-year￾old woman from Wuhan tested positive in Thailand, making it the first country 

beside China, to report a case. The first death occurred on 2 February, involving a 44-

year-old Chinese man in the Philippines, also the first outside China. By 24 March, all 

states in the region had announced at least one case.

Health authorities in Southeast Asian countries Friday confirmed more coronavirus cases and deaths.

The death toll in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) now stands at 

7,990, with 96 new fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. Some 6,169 new infections were confirmed 

over the past day, pushing the tally to 312,699, while 205,390 people have recovered.

COVID-19 cases continue to rise rapidly in South Asia. For months, South Asia was spared 

the worst of the pandemic. Now, health-care systems in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are 

struggling to treat hundreds of thousands of ill patients.

India's caseload rises to world's third-largest. In early June, the government lifted its

lockdown after two months of restrictions. Since then, India has seen a huge spike.

Pakistan’s caseload has almost doubled since the beginning of June. The conclusion of the 

nationwide lockdown and violations of Pakistan’s “standard operating procedures” intended to 

prevent transmission of the coronavirus during the Eid holidays have driven the increase in cases. 

The WHO has ranked Pakistan among the ten countries in the world with the fastest-growing 

number of new COVID-19 cases, and has criticized the hasty removal of restrictions.

Under Nepal’s lockdown, imposed in late March, three of every five workers lost their jobs, 

and tourism receipts, singularly important to the economy, are predicted to drop by 60%. The 

government partially eased the lockdown in early June.

Report Source: Internet, online newspaper

Copyright - Najim Uddin Saffat (student) 

           STAMFORD UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH 

           DEPT. OF BSC IN CIVILL ENGINEERING