Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2021 = 7.380, www.srjis.com PEER REVIEWED & REFEREED JOURNAL, JAN-FEB 2023, VOL- 10/75
ASSESSMENT OF COMPARABILITY INDEX OF COVID-19 CASES: A STUDY OF URBAN AREAS OF INDIA Shailja Kanwar Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur Paper Received On: 25 FEBRUARY 2023 Peer Reviewed On: 28 FEBRUARY 2023 Published On: 01 MARCH 2023
Abstract India is one of the worst hit countries from SARS-COV-2 since its inception. There have been two major COVID-19 waves that India has faced, one in the mid of 2020 and the other in the beginning of 2021. Although the second wave was much worse than the first as it had high transmissibility rate and mortality rate. In this paper a comparative analysis is done for COVID-19 cases in the urban areas of India. These urban cities have gaps when it comes to economic level and urban development. Using the Comparability Index (CI), the study found a correlation between the selected variables namely Population Density, Economic level, Housing occupancy and the number of COVID-19 cases in each city for both the COVID19 waves. Keywords: COVID-19, Economic Level, Housing occupancy, Population Density, Urban cities. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
INTROUCTION The world today is facing the biggest threat in the form of COVID-19. It began from the city of Wuhan, China in early Dec 2019 after which it spread to other countries within no time. Since then, it has been said to have mutated causing respiratory and other problems. In February 2020, the WHO formally designated this outbreak as the Corona virus disease COVID-19 (where Co-corona, Vi-virus D-disease, and 19-2019 the year it began). Recent years have seen an increase in the social and environmental elements that cause pandemics, such as ecosystem damage, meat eating, urbanization, and connectivity between cities and countries. Pathogens may move from Copyright © 2023, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies