CORONA VIRUS, HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN INDIA

Background: The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. It not only have a growing impact on the global economy but also on our social behaviour. The existing health infrastructure in India is very inadequate for COVID patients. Objective: This study seeks to investigate the linkage and impact of paramedical staffs and health infrastructure on the number of corona virus deaths focusing on interstate variation and to analyse the economic effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on GDP, unemployment, inflation and industrial production. Methodology: This study is completely based on secondary data and analysis is based on multi-variate regression model, ANOVA, correlation matrices, graphs and descriptive statistics. Results: Corona positive to bed ratio, positive to doctor ratio, positive to nurse ratio and positive to hospital ratio variables are significant in determining corona deaths in India. The Corona death to corona positive ratio does not determine the number of deaths in a good way. There is wide variation in health infrastructure across states in India. Conclusion: The waves of Covid-19 has brought the attention of the entire globe towards improvement of health infrastructure and manpower. Improvement in number of hospitals, appointment of more doctors, nurses and other para medical staff can protect people from the risk of Coronavirus. The strict practice of COVID appropriate behaviour is the basic necessity to control the spread of the pandemic. _______________________________________________________________________________________