The COVID-19 pandemic not only challenges disease control and crisis management but

also brought long-term, far-reaching and dramatic impacts on the global community; on
people’s lives and health, livelihoods, and economies. This pandemic led to a dramatic loss of
human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food
systems, and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic
is devastating.

  This, being a new viral disease affecting humans, vaccines are still not yet available.
Thus, the emphasis is on taking extensive precautions like extensive hygiene protocol such as
regularly washing of hands, avoidance of face to face interaction, social distancing, and
wearing of masks. This virus is spreading exponentially region wise. Countries are banning
gatherings of people to the spread and break the exponential curve. Many countries are also
locking their population and enforcing strict quarantine to control the spread of the havoc of
this highly communicable disease. With this, a lot of companies were shut down and
according to World Health Organization, nearly half of the world's 3.3 billion worldwide
labor force is in danger of losing their jobs. Without a way to acquire pay during lock downs,
many can't take care of themselves and their families. For most, no income implies no food.
They also added that tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty,
while the number of undernourished people, currently estimated at nearly 690 million, could
increase by up to 132 million by the end of the year.

This pandemic is more serious but now is the ideal opportunity for worldwide solidarity,
particularly with the most vulnerable in our social orders. No one but together would we be
able to defeat the entwined wellbeing, social, monetary effects of the pandemic. We should
perceive this occasion to work back better and focus on pooling our ability and experience to
help nations in their emergency reaction, measures and endeavors. This uncertainty is part of life
and we WILL get through it. It will make us wiser, stronger and more resilient. As what said in the
Winnie the Pooh movie “You are Braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, and Smarter than
you think.” In the meantime, find a way to stay in touch with loved ones through social media, phone
calls and texts, or even old fashioned hand written notes. Record your thoughts and feelings as you
navigate through these days of insecurity. You are now part of history in the making; imagine the
stories you can tell our youth in a few years.