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Abbreviations
- CDC:
-
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- COVID-19:
-
Coronavirus disease
- ILO:
-
International Labour Organization
- IOM:
-
International Organization for Migration
- JHUM:
-
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine
- MDP:
-
Migration Data Portal
- MERS-CoV:
-
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- NIE:
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New Indian Express
- OECD:
-
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- SARS-CoV:
-
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- UN DESA:
-
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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Thanks to Prof. PK Agrawal, the honourable Vice Chancellor, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, and Prof. Sabita Acharya, Vice Chancellor, Utkal University to allow BRP and KD, respectively, to work from home under lockdown periods. Conceptualization by BRP; data curation; formal analysis; funding acquisition; investigation; methodology; writing and editing; resources; software; supervision; validation; visualisation; roles/writing – original draft; writing – review and editing by BRP, KD and TRB.
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Das, K., Behera, T.R., Paital, B. (2021). COVID-19 Outbreak Challenges in Indian Migrant Pregnant and Lactating Mothers: Learnt Lesson Demands Phronesis and Hierarchical Strategies for Such Future Pandemics. In: Asea, A.A.A., Kaur, P. (eds) Coronavirus Therapeutics – Volume II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1353. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85113-2_9
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