Aftermath's of COVID-19: The pandemic of 21st Century

World: A disaster always leaves wreckages of not only materialistic things but also of the dreams and hopes of people to sweep away with them. In December 2019, something happened that had not been witnessed by the modern world. While centuries ago, the plague would often come as a pandemic, but nobody expected something similar in the era of modern-day medicine and extensively vast science.

The same is happening to the world since 2019 when an invisible virus attacked the world, whose origin is still unknown with only several speculations. As an aftermath of the pandemic of the 21st century, the world experienced widespread human, health, wealth, social, economic crisis.

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People in some areas are still locked in their homes for more than two years and barred from their ambitions. No one knows what will go next; everybody is now praying for the COVID-19 virus to go away. In the last two years, the world faced the hazards of the pandemic, which have been a nightmare, even for the most powerful countries. So far, the whole world to date witnessed deaths of more than 4.1 million, with the highest of 35,140,200 occurring in the United States, followed by India with over 31,256,839 deaths and then Brazil with over 19,474,489 fertilities.

WIC News feature desk prepared a detailed study based on the experiences of people across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

United Kingdom 

The United Kingdom witnessed more than 100,000 deaths due to coronavirus; recalling the horrors, a retired medical doctor from London, Dr David Brown, stated that "Streets of London were not earlier this much scary as we experienced in January 2021, when Ambulance siren appeared like alarming alerts of deaths, people were unable to sleep because for the fear."

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Being a doctor, Brown said he never experienced such kind of fear in the eyes of anxiety as before. He said that each phone call scared people as most were only receiving news of deaths of their family, friends and acquaintances.

"Although I'm a doctor, in such kind of situation even we too were helpless, this invisible virus attacked on our community very harshly," he added.

Dr Brown further pointed that he lost many of his doctor colleagues and nurses in this nightmare pandemic.

A student from Oxford University, Mark Wilson, revealed how college students faced several problems during the pandemic. He stated that these new online classes were challenged for them all though they were aware of technology, they faced several problems due to long hour classes, including eyes pain and head-related problems.

United States 

Student of famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Isla Fisher, while talking to on called, shared her various problems which she faced during this pandemic and how this coronavirus swept her people.

Isla Fisher said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she could not go to her university and not meet her boyfriend; many problems started to occur with her boyfriend, and both of them ended three years of relationship. This leads to double trauma on her mind; she was already facing various problems as she lost many of her own.

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Further, she added, "I started talking less to my friends, which led to many mental problems, all-time I felt like someone was hitting on my head. "

In addition, She noted, "Everything is looking faded nowadays, and colours of my world have dumped with this pandemic. "

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Such an incident doesn't only occur with a college-going girl like Isla; after seven years of marriage, 29-year-old Sophie Turner and her husband applied for divorce. They'd never talked splitting up before the coronavirus crisis, but while the pandemic, their marriage soured.

"I was more stressed; also, it was all just building up, and we decided for a trial separation," remarks Turner, a support worker for children's social services in Suffolk, England. "Very quickly, we recognised it was going to be more permanent than that."

Their experiences are becoming frequently common, with divorce applications and breakups skyrocketing across the UK and worldwide.

Notably, In the US, a prominent legal contract-creation site recently declared a 34% rise in sales of its basic divorce agreement, with newlyweds who'd got married in the previous 5 months making up 20% of sales. There's been a comparable pattern in China, which had one of the world's strictest lockdowns at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. The same is true in Sweden, which, until recently, primarily relied on voluntary guidelines to try and slow the spread of Covid-19.

Leading British law firm Stewarts logged a 122% jump in enquiries between July and October, 2020 compared with the equivalent period last year.

"There's no doubt that the COVID-19 has put a lot of strain on relationships, whether it's from doing cooped up at home together 24/7 or striving to navigate a long-distance relationship, the coronavirus pandemic has led to a lot of pressure and stress in relationships," says Dr Albers.

Usually, it happens whenever extensive scale devastation occurs. It left a lot of mess, and current time, this whole world is witnessing a lot of mess.

Suicidal problem :

Due to various factors, suicidal rates have suddenly increased globally during coronavirus. Several reasons underpin these concerns, including a deterioration in population mental health, a larger prevalence of reported thoughts & behaviours of self-harm among people with covid-19, problems accessing mental health services, and evidence suggesting that past epidemics such as SARS (2003) were associated with a rise in deaths by the suicide.

Widely inscribed studies modelling the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on suicide rates predicted rises ranging from 1% to 145%, largely reflecting variation in underlying assumptions. Particular stress has been given to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and young people. Various surveys have highlighted that their mental health has been disproportionately affected relative to older adults; also, some suggest an increase in suicidal thoughts and self-harm.

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Globally, suicide among children is an important preventable public health problem, and it is the 2nd leading cause of death in younger people aged 10–24 years; World has shown a major increase in the deaths of children due to suicide while the lockdown period than the pre-lockdown period, claiming a 9.3%–33% increases in the number of children presenting with self-harm injuries as well.

A shocking data revealed by The Lancet, Globally, more than 1.13 million kids lost their caregivers between March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021.

Also, children who lost either a mother or a father were 1.42 million data added.

The study developed estimates of pandemic-associated orphanhood and caregiver deaths using excess mortality and deaths for 21 countries that accounted for 76·4% of global deaths between March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021.

It then used these findings to develop global extrapolations. It was conducted by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control's COVID-19 Response Team, the Imperial College, London, the University of Oxford and the World Bank, among others.

Caribbean 

The director of Pan Americal Health Organization Director ,Dr Carissa F. Etienne earlier declared that the Latin American region is highly impacted because of the COVID-19 pandemic; she said that the region relies on tourism which was shut because of the virus.

The Caribbean region is too affected by a deadly coronavirus in all aspects, especially countries like St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago, where deaths tolls are very high.

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Only some countries like Dominica managed this pandemic very well; otherwise, students of the Caribbean region suffered a lot. Due to travel restrictions, this region was affected a lot by this virus. Notably, a large portion of the Caribbean economy depends upon tourism, which directly affected the people. Some countries received health assistance from various countries of the world, while nations like Haiti are still striving for enough vaccines.