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Covid-19 & Indian Healthcare Sector The present world is interconnected in so many ways, so much so that a recession at some part of the world might affect even you and me sitting at home or gadgets made in the US would be delivered to another part of the world within days. And the recent spread of Novel Coronavirus has shown us that this interconnectedness is not just in technology or policies, etc., but even in healthcare sector as well. After travelling across 114 countries in three months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced this outbreak of Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Just like the pandemic SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) of 2003, the novel coronavirus also spreads through droplets from sneezes and by direct or indirect contact with an infected person. With a total of 17,594,541 confirmed cases spread across 227 countries and territories, Covid-19 is one of the worst hit pandemics ever. Neither developed nor developing countries did not have ...