The document discusses the various impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. It describes how the lockdown led to mass migration of workers from cities to their hometowns due to unemployment and lack of food and money. It also discusses issues around food security, education, health impacts, and positive impacts such as decreased pollution. The government took initiatives to provide relief camps and transport for migrants.

1. IMPACT OF COVID-19

2. Major issues

3. What is COVID-19?

4. What are the symptoms?

5. How is COVID-19 spread?

7. How is COVID-19 prevented?

8. What are the treatments?

9. How is COVID-19 treated?

12. Migration during COVID-19 lockdown
 Cities are hotspots of COVID-19
 Pandemic has aggravated existing inequality
 Around 17% country’s population lives in slums
 Slums are vulnerable, both in securing livelihoods
and practicing social distancing
 Workers migrated to their hometowns due to
Unemployment
Lack of money
No food
No social protection

13. Initiatives took by the government about migration during lockdown:
• Relief camps
• Transport arrangements
• Special buses & trains

14. Food security during COVID-19 lockdown
 Crisis of food insecurity
 Panic buying of essential items such as rice,
bread, vegetables
 Supply chain is disturbed
 Starvation for migrants
 No income - No food
 Emerging problems at the outset of Rabi harvest
 Implications for dairy farming
 Many people donated food grains, fruits and nutritious food

15. Impact on Education
 Educational institutions are closed
 Exams were cancelled
 2 year gap in schooling
 Virtual learning
 Changes in seating arrangements to timings
 School calendar & curriculum might also be reworked
 Students from rural areas faced problems due to
unavailability of smartphones and televisions

17. Impact of Covid-19 on health sector
 Primary health care is severely affected
 COVID-19 positive patients suffered from insufficient number of beds, required
oxygen, plasma donors for their treatment and recovery
 Insufficient number of medicines in pharmacy
 Selling medicines at higher prices than MRP
 Effect on pregnant woman
 Vaccine shortage
 Doctors and health care workers played an important role

18. Positive Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic
 Build genuine relationship
 Better Lifestyle changes & Better Hygiene
 Innovations to Stay Connected & Help Each Other
 A New Wave of Tools & Software
 Remote Working Turning Mainstream
 Education gets Digitized & Affordable
 Decrease in pollution

19.  SPUTNIK
 COVAXIN
 COVISHIELD