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“The pandemic has taught us that risk is not confined. Risk ripples across sectors and geographies. We have to address the notion of systemic risk as opposed to silos of different hazards. From that perspective, I think the Disaster Management Act has to play a role of managing risk as a whole. We may have had a mixed experi…
By Sanjay Srivastava, Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood, SungEun Kim, and Maria Bernadet Karina Dewi
From May 12-19, in the midst of the devastating second wave of the pandemic, the powerful Cyclone Tauktae struck India’s west coast and killed more than 100 people. This was the deadliest cyclone in the Arabian Sea over the last decade. Starting from sou…
India has been grappling with a deadly COVID-19 surge that hit the country like a cyclone in early April. Within a month, new daily cases peaked at over 400,000. On May 19, India set a global record of 4,529 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours. Over 500 Indian physicians have perished from COVID since March. The actual figures on these counts are likely to be m…
By Uma S Kambhampati
The second wave of the pandemic has struck India with a devastating impact. With over 300,000 new cases and 3,000 deaths across the country each day at present, the total number of deaths has just passed the 200,000 mark – that’s about one in 16 of all COVID deaths across the world. It is also evident that the India statistics are…
By Joydeep Gupta and Zobaidur Rahman Soeb
The West Bengal government evacuated over 200,000 residents of coastal villages as the extremely severe Cyclone Amphan moved north by northeast parallel to India’s east coast on Wednesday morning. It is expected to make landfall near the mouth of the Hooghly river at the western edge of the Sundarbans later on…
This report shares inspiring stories of epidemics that didn’t happen, or whose impact was lessened, because of careful planning and swift strategic action. These epidemics that didn’t happen show us how the trajectory of an epidemic can be fundamentally altered when a country invests in and prioritizes preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks and r…
This contributing paper investigates the process of how the risk, the translation of which contributed to faster transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and relatively higher deaths due to COVID-19 during the first wave, had been building in the World Heritage (old) city of Ahmedabad over a period of more than 600 years by considering the old city as a ‘system’ and…
The document is a compendium of all the guidelines and advisories issued by various ministries and departments of the Government of India for mitigation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, ‘COVID-19 Impact on Education’ and highlights the adverse impacts of the pandemic on the education sector in India and beyond. It is estimated that, the Covid-19 pandemic has battered education systems around the world, affecting close to 90 per cent of the world's student population. The issue highlights…
Avoidable Deaths Network is holding a global webinar on the topic of Disaster Risk Governance, on 12 October 2020, the eve of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. This webinar will last 2 hours and 45 minutes and will start at 12:00 PM, Monday, 12 October (GMT+1).
Speakers from UNDP, African Union, International Planned Parenth…
By Ms. Garima Khera and Ms. Disha Dwivedi from India; Ms. Ankita Shah & Ms. Sriya Gajurel from Nepal
Risk Governance during any disaster is considered to be the role of government agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic, is a major crisis with the number of cases rising alarmingly throughout the world. Up until March 31st 2020, Coronavirus has infected 802…
By Nivedita Khandekar
DELHI, 2 June, 2020 – India is no stranger to coping with climate extremes and natural emergencies, but this year is likely to lodge in the national memory as one of the most challenging in recent history.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global scourge, but India also has many regional and national afflictions to make 2020 a year…
In this new Podcast we like to draw your attention to the voice of ordinary people in various communities around the world: from Philippines to Ethiopia, from South-Sudan to India. The lockdown in many places has led to increasing vulnerabilities to people who are already living in difficult situations. These few voices speak for millions.
The COVID-1…
Climate change is likely to spread malaria to new areas in the Indian Himalayas, and lengthen the periods in which the infection is spread in a number of districts, according to projections from malaria researchers in India. "Strengthening health infrastructure and educating communities in vulnerable areas are the key tools," said Aditya Prasad Dash, re…
The present study aims to understand the geographical influence on the spatial distribution of COVID-19 transmission at the regional level in the context of India. It uses long-term climatic records of air temperature (T), rainfall (R), actual evapotranspiration (AET), solar radiation (SR), specific humidity (SH), wind speed (WS) with topograp…