COVID-19: Impact and New Normal

Abstract

The novel corona or COVID-19 disease spread from Wuhan city of China. The virus spread rapidly around the different countries, and now there are 6,040,609 confirmed cases across the globe. People inflected with virus are suffering from respiratory problems, blood clotting, etc. It is evident to be more dangerous for older persons and those who are already facing other serious illnesses. The virus spreads mainly through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose of infected person when he coughs or sneezes. The purpose of this review is to focus on social and economic impact of COVID-19 in India and how the world will change because of this pandemic and what will be the ‘new normal' with and after this pandemic. This deadly virus has put the globe on alert because of its the high mortality rate and expansion of new number of cases rapidly. Until now, four lockdown phases had helped India to prevent the spike in the curve of new cases, but currently the authors are witnessing steeper rise in new corona cases every day.