Losses and learning amidst COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 continues to evolve rapidly and spread across the globe, with more than 52 million confirmed cases and over 1.3 million deaths in 220 countries. With the escalation in virus transmission, we are witnessing its spiralling, disruptive effects on the global, community as well as individual functioning, leading to human, economic, material and environmental losses. The pandemic has created immense changes in lives and the losses on people worldwide irrespective of diversities such as age, gender, race, culture and economic development of countries are comparable; however, the severity of their impacts is inequitable. The Cambridge dictionary defines loss as the fact that an individual no longer has something or has less of something, or a disadvantage caused by someone leaving or when something has been taken away.