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India’s fight against COVID-19 - Zeeshan Akhtar Photo Source: PTI The world was hit struck by a pandemic caused by a virus called COVID-19 or the Novel Coronavirus in the year 2019. The virus, as claimed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations, originated from a Chinese meat market in Wuhan. The virus took over China within a few months, forcing the Chinese government to put a complete lockdown in some of its major hit cities and provinces, causing major trouble for their economy, as everything was closed and shut, including schools, colleges, offices, markets, government, and private institutions, etc. As cases spread in China, other countries also started reporting Coronavirus cases, and eventually, an epidemic turned into a pandemic with the blink of an eye. India reported its first case on 30th January 2020, by that time, the world was getting used to the pandemic, but we were still not prepared for what ...