COVID-19: Socio-Economic Implications for Pakistan

Abstract

The paper analyzes the global pandemic of COVID-19, its evolution, development and its
implications on World and specifically Pakistan. Sparkly, it emerged in the Chinese city of
Wuhan, was restricted to the city for less than a month, but currently the virus has engrossed the
whole world. This part of study investigates both developed and developing countries responses
to deal with the global dominant issue. The study focused on Pakistan’s response to COVID-19
being damaged by War on Terror and political instability. The paper concluded that Pakistan
very smartly responded to pandemic by applying smart lock down within its limited resources to
contain the virus and maintained a balance between saving lives and saving livelihoods. This
piece of paper also find that like on other developing countries the pandemic also has severe
Scio-economic implications as it economically the business went down, investment came to its
lowest level that heavily marked Pakistan economically unsound. Socially speaking, the virus
created fear and totally break down the public gathering that made the people psychologically
unhealthy