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Corona complexity

Set economic growth aside, intensify redistribution

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Parthasarathi Shome
Coronavirus (Novel Covid-19) is a flu virus with face-to-face transmission. Remaining latent for some time, it infects others, and then spreads rapidly and intensively into the respiratory system that may lead to quick death for those with underlying vulnerabilities. Modern science has been unable to successfully deconstruct it so far. It is said to have spread from animal to human, and now human to felines. This newly identified latter direction augurs another dimension to the pandemic across 200 countries that threatens a far wider boomerang, though not yet recognised. 

Mankind is again in the realm of Chaos and Complexity. The
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