Here is what startup founders are looking forward to in 2021
For them, 2021 is the year of hope, resurgence, but COVID-19 worries and those about India’s economic health are not too far behind.
December 31, 2020 / 02:33 PM IST
It was a year like no other and was quite a ride for India’s fledgling startup ecosystem. The year 2020 was off to a cautious start as reports of an outbreak of a highly contagious virus in China began trickling in. By March, panic had set in as India went into a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. As markets crashed around the world and analysts worried about a slowdown, startup founders went back to the drawing board to prepare for the worst.
Fighting Epidemics in Complex Emergencies: The Ebola Crisis Response and Recovery through Safety Nets and Community Engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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From August 2018 to June 2019, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) fought the second largest Ebola outbreak in history. It took place amid overlapping crises including food insecurity, massive forced displacement, and persistent armed conflict. With a total of 3,420 cases, the outbreak claimed 2,287 lives in 29 health zones across the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. These hosted 8.5 million poor people, including 6 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, thus stretching traditional coping mechanisms to the limit.