It has almost been a month of lockdown world over for varying periods and the Corona Pandemic is yet to show a flattening curve in USA and many countries who are still trying to take control of the situation.
In India cases may not be showing the world pattern but the picture would become clear after testing is picked up.
Perhaps we are going to see a new world order and history in making post pandemic.
US President Donald Trump has already raged a war by openly accusing China for hiding crucial data and charging that WHO was hand in glove with it .The balance of world power will see a shift and Asian countries , India in particular, will emerge stronger after it recovers from worst hit Economy.
While Scientists and Doctors world over are working 24 x7 to find out effective therapeutic combinations of medicines and vaccine to fight Covid-19, surely the crisis has to get over sooner or later. But we are already witnessing new technology and change in the social order across the globe. In these difficult times worst ever economies will take time to recover and hopefully everything will be for the better.
Work from Home (WFH) seems to be emerging as a new business model as it has so far turned
out to be a positive experience and companies are seriously thinking if they should go for downsizing and reduce cost on their establishments.
Unfortunately many establishments in India have moved in this direction and employees face threat of losing jobs as in many places there were salary cuts.
It is believed highly automated production infrastructure will not only save energy, lower production cost but also cause reduction in work-force working hours.
E-Services will be introduced in both the government and private sector irrespective of nature of business and so far experiments have been successful. Brick & mortar establishments will shift to a future where there is more technology and less human resource.
“Lockdown has proved should there be a need for meetings and interactions, they can be held through Video- Conferencing mode and in days to come it could be a well-planned strategy to cut down expenses on travel”, said an expert adding “it is the high time for young minds to come out with new technology”.
The pandemic has brought to fore the fact that a big boost is required for Healthcare as most of the developed nations faced the wrath of the deadly virus and everyone ran out of life saving facilities.
The Education system world over went in for a quick transformation as classroom teaching got converted into Online mode and opened different options to experiment. Though it can never be a substitute to Classroom teaching, some of the key benefits of Online teaching emerged significantly giving a hope for this transition.
The world looked cleaner as pollution level reduced significantly and Centre for International Climatic Research in Oslo has started working on the estimates of reduction in emission of toxic gases and the possible scenario.
Since everyone got hit with Pandemic, Corona has certainly brought the international community together in global empathy to help each other.
Though it is too early to comment as to how things will progress since Corona curve has yet to flatten and settle down, it seems, the coming months will see all kind of problems yet positive developments.