The Coronavirus Pandemic in South Asia: Challenges and Responses

This policy outlook focuses on the impact of the disease in South Asia, providing regional statistics, delineating shared challenges, country-specific conce​rns and vulnerabilities as well as outlining evidence-based policy and programmatic recommendations.

As covid-19 creates havoc around the world, and with the World Health Organisation (WHO) describing it as a ‘pandemic’, governments have had to scramble to manage the spread and sociopolitical as well as economic consequences. This policy outlook focuses on the impact of the disease in South Asia, providing regional statistics, delineating shared challenges, country-specific conce​rns and vulnerabilities as well as outlining evidence-based policy and programmatic recommendations.

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Ravale Mohydin
Ravale Mohydin
Ravale Mohydin is a researcher at TRT World Research Centre. With graduate degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, her research interests include the political economy of media, strategic communications, public diplomacy, political effects of entertainment media, conflict media coverage as well as South Asian politics and society.

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