COVID-19: Biological Effect and Social Responses in India and the United States of America: An Empirical and Comparative Study

At the time of ending days of the year 2019, the news regarding outbreak of virus which was later on known as “Corona” came from Chinese City Wuhan. Initially, the people were not aware of the nature and impact of the virus but when the news of people dying in Wuhan due to this virus started spreading across the world, then the whole world felt itself in a fix. The European Countries which were having a very good medical infrastructure have drastically failed in preventing the infection of the virus Corona and innumerable people have lost their lives in many countries such as Italy, France, America and many more. Although, initially the people of India were not taking this as so seriously, yet after recording a 1st case in in January 2020 in the State of Kerla, the Government of India took the necessary preventive measures and started awaking its citizens regarding the virus. In spite of taking all preventive measures whole country had to undergo a long lockdown in order to prevent the further spreading of the disease and save lives and by taking such preventive measures, India could minimise the loss, which could have been higher than in which it has occurred. At the same time the people as well as Government of United States of America did not take it seriously and not adopted the preventive measures, consequently despite having a latest rich technology and best medical infrastructure, the United States of America has to suffer from irreparable losses of lives as well as wealth. The author has intended to carry out a comparative study in respect of both countries India and USAin order to highlight the biological impacts and social responses of the people of both countries. The report of the study will be based upon the primary and secondary data as well as empirical study carried out by the author.