Response to COVID-19
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Successful COVID-19 Vaccination, Primary Health Centre, Sorapet
By Shankar K | Jun 27, 2022
Getting everyone vaccinated has direct and indirect impacts on society, like low infection rate, fewer chances of public lockdown and school closure etc. But the pace of vaccination in Puducherry was slow during the middle of the year 2021.
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Reintegration & Rehabilitation Policies for Emigrants in Kerala: Strategies for a Post-COVID World
By Akhil C S, Ashwin Kumar and Sabeer V C | Nov 27, 2020
Given the importance of international migration to Kerala’s economy, old and new migration corridors need to be kept open for those who are willing to re-migrate in the future. A larger migration framework, which clearly outlines India’s approach to migration, is the need of the hour.
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Fighting the Pestilence: Lessons from South Korea (Part III)
By Gouranga Gopal Das | Nov 20, 2020
The South Korean approach to COVID-19 may be difficult to emulate even for countries like the US and UK, but it provides important policy implications for developing countries and the need for strengthening three core competencies: digital technology, efficient health governance, and civic partnership.
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Fighting the Pestilence: Lessons from South Korea (Part II)
By Gouranga Gopal Das | Nov 19, 2020
Seventy percent of 10,400 confirmed cases were tested, treated, and confirmed recovered and sent back home. ‘Nearly 20,000 people are being tested every day for coronavirus in South Korea, more people per capita than anywhere else in the world’, a BBC report mentioned.
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Fighting the Pestilence: Lessons from South Korea (Part I)
By Gouranga Gopal Das | Nov 17, 2020
Lockdowns and the associated effects on consumption and work (labour hours) are demand and supply shocks that increase the severity of a deep recession, exacerbate the size of it but save lives by reducing the severity of the epidemic.