Recapturing The First Wave of The Covid-19: Pandemic in India

Amartya Chowdhury and Swarup K. Chakrabarti

The book captures a critical period of the Indian history when an unprecedented, devastating COVID-19 pandemic emerges in the beginning of the 2020. India being a diverse country, and the second most populous nation in the world, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the society has been heterogeneous and lethal. The book aims to better prepare the Indian society in mitigating the impact of pandemic as a result of future waves of COVID-19 infection through identification of several underlying key socio-demographic factors by comparing infection transmission and deaths between highest-affected and least-affected Indian states, and how these factors can be intervened in controlling COVID-19 disease spread across the population. Thus, this book may help policy leaders to design more effective interventional strategies in preventing the deleterious outcomes of pandemic on the Indian society.

Amartya Chowdhury and Swarup K. Chakrabarti

Amartya Chowdhury holds a Master’s degree in History from Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi. He has additional Master’s degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has been associated with Translational Global Health Policy Research Cell, Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delhi previously, as a Research Intern. Presently, he is Research Assistant at the H.P Ghosh Research Centre in Kolkata.

Swarup K. Chakrabarti has a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from Calcutta University, India. He did his Ph.D dissertation work at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India), and received doctoral degree (science) from Jadavpur University, India. Subsequently, he did his post-doctoral research at University of Illinois and University of Virginia, US prior to becoming an Assistant Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, US. DrChakrabarti has authored numerous research articles published in prestigious international journals. He is currently a Research Analyst at HP Ghosh Research Centre, Kolkata, India.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Population Density-Migration and COVID-19: An Indian Case Study
2. Gendered Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Indian Society
Conclusion