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Introduction: Corona virus belongs to the family of viruses that may cause various symptoms such as pneumonia, fever, breathing difficulty, and lung infection. The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan, China. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and thus a pandemic. India reported its First case on 30 January, 2020;a medical student who had travelled from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of COVID-19. Methodology: It is a retrospective, hospital based study conducted from 25 November 2020 to 15 December 2020 in J.L.N Medical College and Associated Group of Hospitals, Ajmer. A total of 118 Laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases who underwent chest CT were taken in the study. Results and Conclusion: From present study it can conclude that the constancy of CT chest findings is related to duration of illness. It also shows that time course of infection is of utmost importance not only to understand the pathophysiologic features and natural history of disease, but also help to predict the disease in its early stages and to prevent potential complications. As the disease is very virulent and potentially fatal, the risk stratification through CT chest is necessary so during triage, CT should be done as early as possible along with RT-PCR so that early detection of disease provides window for early initiation of treatment thus avoiding complications especially in co-morbid patients.
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COVID-19 is one of the unprecedented global crises that hit mankind in the last 100 years. It has engulfed the entire globe in its ambit, and what makes it peculiar is that it is not an economic crisis like the Great Depression or the Financial Crisis in 2007, but this is a natural crisis. The crisis has brought the entire global economy to a standstill due to lockdowns across different geographies, which has retarded the growth of economies. The current study explores how different major stock markets across the world have reacted to this grave pandemic. It is studied by comparing the returns of different phases of the market with the normal phase by applying T-test and Mann?Whitney U-test. Results indicate the short-term impact of this epidemic and much faster recoveries across different markets. The study also explores the spillover effect of different markets over others.
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Individuals with special education needs have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as they have been shown to be at high risk of losing medical and institutional support at a time when people are being asked to stay isolated, suffering increased anxiety and depression as a consequence. Their families have often found themselves under tremendous pressure to provide support, engendering financial hardship, and physical and emotional strains. In such times, it is vital that international collaborations assess the impact on the individuals and their families, affording the opportunity to make national and international comparisons of how people have coped and what needs to be done to optimize the measures taken by families, associations and governments. This paper introduces one such collaboration.