Artha Journal of Social Sciences

Negotiating the ‘new normal’

The COVID 19 Pandemic has transformed our world with widespread social and economic changes as the world has struggled to cope with the outbreak. Social and physical distancing and quarantines have been public health strategies that have been adopted to check the rapid transmission of the virus. Across the world different nation states resorted to lockdown as a strategy even while encountering the dilemma of risking livelihoods and economic survival in the interest of the health and survival of their citizen-subjects. The impact of the strategies put in place by countries across the world to cope with the pandemic has been felt in all aspects of society.