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    Active Death Cases and Recovery Rates of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study of Developed, Developing, and Least Developed Countries of the World
    (NB Publications, 2022) Rahaman, Saidur; Saha, Snehasish; Mandal, Tapash; Chakrabarty, Kunal; Mitra, Nita; Pal, Sujit
    At present, people worldwide are fighting against an unseen enemy. Outbreaks of COVID-19 are on the rise in more than 200 countries worldwide. In the world economy, human life has been dramatically affected. The developed developing, and least developed countries of the world have been affected by the extremities of COVID-19. However, the rate of COVID-19 infection is not the same in every country of the world due to some of their rules and facilities such as treatment, infrastructure, lifestyle, and awareness. The study has been done based on secondary data. Daily data on the number of recovered, active, and deaths cases were collected up to the study endpoint via the Johns Hopkins University data source (https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19) on 24 December 2020 at 21.58 GTM and daily situation reports of World Health Organization (WHO). The data used relates to the descriptive statistics and Normalized Z-score and found relations among 15. In Developed countries, on an average, the affected COVID-19 cases were 28.73 people, say 29per thousand; median COVID-19 cases are 27.62 people, say 28 per thousand people. The average recovery rate is 65.95 % in Developed countries. Nevertheless, high confirmed cases have been found in the U.S (1,78,44,690) ...
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    COVID-19 and Women Warriors in Health Sector in West Bengal
    (University of North Bengal, 31-03-2021) Saha, Priya Ranjan
    The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting societies around the world in an unprecedented manner. With an intention to break the chain of coronavirus spread, India went for complete nationwide lockdown from 24 March 2020. While the comparatively rich and privileged classes could sustain their normal life during the longest period of lock down, it was primarily the poor and the marginalized sections that had to bear the cost. In this pandemic the weaknesses of our health system have been thoroughly exposed but the frontline health workers put up a brave face while attending the COVID-infected patients taking life risk. In this paper, I have tried to capture how our front-line women warriors of the health sector are fighting the disease and the consequences they have to face while carrying out their duties. As the pandemic has given rise to certain fear and anxiety in the public mind, the front-line women health workers have to face additional vulnerability for no fault of their own. Ironically, as compared to the male health workers, the female workers suffer more. For writing this paper, I have relied on secondary data published in newspapers and journals and supplemented those with my own ethnographic findings.
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    Jurisprudential Study on Individual Liberty v. Public Interest: A Case of COVID-19
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Rajasekar, G
    Human community witnessed many outbreaks of infectious disease from very ancient period. Indian society is also not spared by the nature in this regard. These diseases posed great threats not only to the public health security of the nations but also significantly disrupted the economic and commercial activities of the State. The power exercised by the state in protecting public health during health emergency is limited by the individual right to liberty, right to food, right to privacy, right against discrimination etc. Therefore, a fine balance may be drawn between the individual liberty and the power state to maintain public health.
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    On the Margins: A Tale of the Pandemic and the Funeral Workers in Benares
    (University of North Bengal, 2022-03) Kumari, Sarita
    Caste is one of the core markers of Hindu society. Many castes still continue with their hereditary traditional occupations across India; burning of the funeral pyre is such an unrecognized occupation performed by the Doms. Outbreak of any infectious disease often adds to the burden of a work, which is already challenging. The pandemic COVID-19 unfolded a series of events in the lives of funeral workers in Benares, as they had to negotiate the transition from normal to pathological conditions while carrying on with their occupation. The stigma attached to their work of dealing with death and their caste identity played a pivotal part in undermining their efforts both by the State and the caste-based society at large.
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    Swachh Bharat Paradox: Issues and Challenges of Manual Scavengers with Special Reference to the COVID-19 Crisis
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-09) Chawla, Garima
    Despite the enactment of successive legislations in 1993 and 2013, the dehumanising occupational practice of manual scavenging still persists in India. As members of the Dalit community, manual scavengers continue to confront issues such as marginalisation and gross violation of their dignity. This paper critically examines the socio-legal status of manual scavengers in India by assessing key determinants including the legislative and regulatory measures, the role of the judiciary and civil society, as well as the widely celebrated Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Additionally, the paper provides an empirical analysis of the struggles faced by manual scavengers as frontline workers during the unprecedented humanitarian crisis of COVID-19.