COVID-19 pandemic and transmission factors: An empirical investigation of different countries.

The present work evaluates the impact of age, population density, total population, rural population, annual average temperature, basic sanitation facilities, and diabetes prevalence on the transmission of COVID-19. This research is an effort to identify the major predictors that have a significant impact on the number of COVID-19 cases per million population for 83 countries. The findings highlight that a population with a greater share of old people (aged above 65) shows a higher number of COVID-19 positive cases and a population with a lower median age has fewer cases.

Contagion effect of COVID-19 outbreak: Another recipe for disaster on Indian economy.

The global outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns raises serious economic concern and havoc worldwide. This article tries to provide an economic perspective of COVID-19 in India using some statistical figure of economic indicators. Analysis is based on the data collected for macro-economy, travel & tourism, transportation, stock market, human capital and trade.