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Clinical Infectious Diseases: Open Access

ISSN: 2684-4559

Open Access

Soham Chakraborty

Indian institute of Public Health, Kavuri Hills, Madhapur, Hyderabad, India

Publications
  • Review Article   
    COVID-19 and Management of Parallel Disasters
    Author(s): Suresh Kumar Rathi* and Soham Chakraborty

    Corona virus has taken up the limelight in the sector of disasters since its arrival, however since then the world has faced various other major and minor hazards which have turned into disasters. Be it the Beirut explosion or the Air-India plane crash, disasters have been continuously creating trouble for people. Being in the same time as Covid-19, these disasters can be labelled as parallel disasters. Parallel disasters are difficult to manage as they have a cumulative impact. Sometimes there are multiple hazards and sometimes one hazard leads to another, both the times disaster management becomes very difficult. However, there is one factor in the form of public health which can strengthen the resilience of the population and thus decrease the cumulative impact without even interacting directly with the disaster. In this article, we look at various types of disaster which.. Read More»
    DOI: 10.37421/jid.2020.4.128

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