Abstract
The novel coronavirus pandemic has shown that humans are not impeccable and countries and communities are vulnerable and needed to be prepared. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global health emergency, and the ways countries across the globe are striving to hinder the disease’s outbreak are wide-ranging. Worldwide nations are responding quite differently to the virus outbreak. The response to the coronavirus outbreak has been highly criticized by experts around the world. A delay to detect the onset of coronavirus symptoms and response by the government has been recorded, not only in China but in other major developed countries as well, which in turn threatened and overburdened the local healthcare systems. On the other hand, many other countries have put in place proactive efforts and effective strategies to track down and isolate the symptomatic and asymptomatic infections. Based on the experience of many countries, this chapter aims to draw out the key lessons learnt from successful and failed practices implemented against COVID-19 outbreaks across the globe.
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Barwal, A., Sood, A., Gupta, A.K., Goyal, M.K. (2020). Lessons from Trans-Domain Assessment of COVID 19 Outbreak. In: Goyal, M.K., Gupta, A.K. (eds) Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7679-9_24
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