Mainstream
Mainstream, VOL LIX No 7, New Delhi, January 30, 2021
How Inequality Increased Greatly in Covid Times | Bharat Dogra & Kumar Gautam
Friday 29 January 2021
by Bharat Dogra & Kumar Gautam
In the initial days of Covid-19 pandemic, it was widely believed that this will have an equal impact on all sections of people, but it soon became evident, particularly after the introduction of lockdowns, that the pandemic is likely to have a much more serious impact on poorer and weaker sections of societies across the globe. As Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General said:
“The COVID-19 pandemic has played an important role in highlighting growing inequalities. It exposed the myth that everyone is in the same boat. While we are all floating on the same sea, it’s clear that some are in superyachts, while others are clinging to the drifting debris.”