The pathway the disease has created is a turbulent one, and it is up to all Nepalis to decide how to go through it successfully. Though it has wreaked havoc, the pandemic can be used to advance the country’s healthcare system. The financial crisis should help advance tech companies since crises have helped develop and advance societies While the world sails through a seemingly apocalyptic pandemonium, most Nepalis feel stranded as they do not know what to do. They try to survive in the dark, and the year has been simply devastating. It is the first time for the majority of the Nepalis to witness a pandemic that has wreaked havoc in all areas, affecting millions of people worldwide and at the same time claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
COVID-19 has ravaged the globe and has held the world hostage, literally. The disease came by surprise, and managing it is going to be a challenge.
The government did take some measures to control the spread of the virus by imposing a total lockdown and closing the borders.
The pandemic has resulted in the closure of businesses worldwide, and the country’s economic status took a major hit. Unemployment issues brought financial, social and psychological problems. Due to poor finance, many families have been suffering from poverty.
COVID-19 has led people to depression, tension, harassment, frustration, anxiety, nervousness, stress, hesitation, unnecessary thinking, humiliation, loss of physical fitness and suicide. People have lost their income with no way to support them.
Many have abandoned their homes to remain homeless, tensions between family members have arisen, and many in debt are unable to pay. Besides the economic problems, unemployment has led to an increase in the crime rate, social separation, domestic violence and ill-health. It has imposed negative psychological impacts like loss of identity and self-esteem, promoted unhealthy habits, increased family and social pressures, and greater uncertainty about future work. Moreover, the pandemic has resulted in substandard housing, inadequate nutrition, food insecurity and poor childcare services, and has left under-resourced schools in turmoil, which adversely affects children.
The lockdown, which started as a way to fight COVID-19, had long started to pose as a double-edged sword. While on the one hand, it started as a preventive strategy to contain the spread of the disease, on the other, increasing hunger due to scarcity of available food resources put the livelihood of daily wage workers, who have […]