How India should prepare itself for natural calamities during Covid times
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Pandemic
With coronavirus spreading across the country, India’s entire focus is on dealing with the pandemic that’s taking a major toll on the country’s health infrastructure. In light of how Covid is changing things, our natural disaster management also needs to level up; here’s how.
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New challenges
The spread of COVID-19, coupled with fear and panic is akin to most natural disasters and with more viruses likely to manifest with changing conditions, it’s time to prepare the country’s natural disaster response to include pandemics.
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Old foes
But existing problems - earthquakes, floods, landslides - also need to be brought up to date; if COVID-19 continues to permeate daily life like it is, there will be a need to look into our disaster response and ensure we don’t succumb to one disaster while preventing another.
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Stretched thin
With coronavirus, both India’s healthcare and disaster management are working over capacity meaning there are no resources if another calamity strikes; it’s time to beef up the budgets for Disaster Relief and healthcare.
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Recurrence
And we need to run on the assumption that these things will keep happening, in an endless loop and we need to be prepared. Much better than we were now.