Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Pakistan: A Case Study of District Dera Ghazi Khan

Abstract

The last couple of month of 2019 shared the news of a new virus from Wuhan (Li et al., 2020) a city of China. Initially no one gave attention to this pandemic. Chinese government took it serious after the deteriorating situation. WHO warned the world about this fatal disease continuously and suggested precautionary measures. But the year 2020 is considered very important in the modern world with the human progress. It will also be remembered as a most critical time due to the dangerous pandemic of Corona which got fame as a Covid-19. This Covid-19, which wreaked havoc on the world. The most developed countries of the world looked helpless before this pandemic of Covid-19. The covid-19 devoured human demons regardless of color or religion, and the world took a new turn in the face of this dangerous and hidden enemy. During the time of most fatal pandemic of Covid- 19 in modern world of 21st century the world has seriously affected due to the impacts of this Covid-19 which proved dangerous enemy of humanity. This hidden enemy changed the behavior of humanity strongly during the era of this pandemic. Covid-19 spread in the entire world, and it realized the need of global level cooperation among the world because Covid-19 influenced badly on the socio-economic life of the people of underdeveloped countries not only but also destroyed the powerful and developed western countries i.e., education, health and economy which is a serious human issue. This paper highlights the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19 in Pakistan especially in Dera Ghazi Khan during this pandemic era.