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workforce across all economic sectors and linked to several job losses. Schools
were closed down, and the requirement for commodities and manufactured products has reduced. But the demand for medical supplies significantly increased
(Nicola et al. 2020).
There are considerable gaps in our knowledge of zoonotic pathogens (Cantlay
et al. 2017). Avoiding bush meat and wet market as source of food will not only
promote it as mitigation strategy, but it will also qualify as adaptation strategy
wherein people live with pathogens within the locality but sufficiently away from
them to get into body. Similarly, avoiding fish will prevent people from consuming
food with bio- accumulated toxic substance.
In many cases, it is totally unavoidable to eliminate disaster-related damage to
property, obstruction to road (Fig. 11.2), flooding in street and injury to human
beings. Community shall live with such situation if it is not prepared for mitigating
such situations.
When community as a whole is not able to control/eliminate mosquito, individuals have to adapt to the situation by using mosquito net/repellents. Establishments
Fig. 11.2 Fall of tree
branches due to heavy rain
11.5 Social Distancing, Lockdown and Change in Lifestyle
workforce across all economic sectors and linked to several job losses. Schools
were closed down, and the requirement for commodities and manufactured products has reduced. But the demand for medical supplies significantly increased
(Nicola et al. 2020).
There are considerable gaps in our knowledge of zoonotic pathogens (Cantlay
et al. 2017). Avoiding bush meat and wet market as source of food will not only
promote it as mitigation strategy, but it will also qualify as adaptation strategy
wherein people live with pathogens within the locality but sufficiently away from
them to get into body. Similarly, avoiding fish will prevent people from consuming
food with bio- accumulated toxic substance.
In many cases, it is totally unavoidable to eliminate disaster-related damage to
property, obstruction to road (Fig. 11.2), flooding in street and injury to human
beings. Community shall live with such situation if it is not prepared for mitigating
such situations.
When community as a whole is not able to control/eliminate mosquito, individuals have to adapt to the situation by using mosquito net/repellents. Establishments
Fig. 11.2 Fall of tree
branches due to heavy rain
11.5 Social Distancing, Lockdown and Change in Lifestyle