Concerted Actions to Mitigate the Pandemic
By Dr. Arvind Kumar, President, India Water Foundation The Coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging crisis the world has faced since World War II with unprecedented threat to humanity, paralleled consequences of economic recession, social tensions and psychological health crisis. In fact, it's a human crisis with growing instability and devastating socio-economic unrest. Today, we stand united to garner emotional strength to tackle its profound consequences by responding to the emergency and recover from the socio-economic shock. We are facing a tough situation, radical choices to hear the million voices with a global picture of the COVID-19 invasion seriously grim. According to the UN International Labour Organisation, five to 25 million jobs will be eradicated while UNESCO forecast that 1.5 billion students out of school. In Asia and the Pacific, the impacts of the pandemic have reverberated soundly among its population of more than 4 billion and in its network of vi