India is currently experiencing a cataclysmic wave of COVID-19. What seemed like a meager flu and cough symptom when the first case was reported in Thrissur, Kerala on the 27th of January, 2020 has resulted in more than 332,000 infections today along with 2,250 deaths. The numbers have nearly destroyed all the prior records and presently attained a vertical coronavirus growth curve. Well, the story doesn’t halt here. Not only the number of cases have peaked but the daily reported death curve’s slope has attained a vertical picture too.
A fragile healthcare system is practically grappling with the rising number of patients begging for something we’ve never imagined in our wildest nightmare, Oxygen. Amidst this catastrophe, it’s highly important for us to know how has this pandemic affected the major forty-two sectors of the Indian Economy and that is where I bring forth to you the Sector Series where I will be speaking to the NGOs and people involved in various occupations and would be attempting to put forth an honest picture of the additional challenges every sector is fighting against.
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