When Covid-19 struck, the whole world was affected drastically. Due to government orders to social distance, this impacted many jobs, resulting in an economic crisis. The government was and currently still facing massive problems regarding the prevention of coronavirus exposure and eradicating this virus as a whole. Scientists and researchers immediately started to work on a vaccine. This was the initial reaction when Covid-19 rapidly spread its way to the rest of the world from mainland China. Developed countries are still in the process of learning how to combat this virus, how does Covid-19 affect the Under-developed countries?

One of the main problems during the pandemic of third world countries is the amount of job loss faced. Laborers, minimum-wage workers, and service-oriented jobs are critically affected. This creates a downside because approximately ¼ of the population of under-developed countries work at minimum wage. Many of these workers are going through an economic struggle, with having to pay rent, car payment, bills, and having no daily income results in a socio-economic divide and an increase in poverty. Eventually, as the economy decreases, the countries’ GDP(Gross Domestic Product) declines. When the GDP slows down, it leads to a recession/lay-offs, creating a butterfly effect of unemployment.

Access to masks, ventilators, and other necessities to fight the virus, is a prevailed struggle. In view of the impoverished economy, governments are not able to fund the required tools for hospitals. Even during the wake of the pandemic, New York, USA, which has the biggest economy in the world, had trouble with providing basic appliances to its hospitals. Sub-SaharanAfrica is a valid example, with having trouble providing supplies. Not many African nation shave ventilators, a critical device for treating instances of COVID-19. Nigeria is accounted for to have less than 500 ventilators altogether, while the Central African Republic has three. In the account of under-developed countries having a high population, it is difficult to contain or treatCovid-19. Nations in Africa would confront huge difficulties in upholding social-separating rules and different measures to straighten the disease bend. African countries’ having a poor medical framework, hospitals can immediately become overworked by a second wave of Covid-19.Africa is experiencing an extreme lack of medical services laborers, in 2013’s Ebola outbreak, hospitals had 2.2 specialists per 1,000 individuals, compared to Europe’s ratio of 14-1000.

In order to eliminate Coronavirus, world scientists must produce a vaccine in the following year.Unfortunately, governments of third world countries would not be able to finance mass production or even create a vaccine, it is most likely a vaccine would be created and manufactured in a developed country. Even when a vaccine from a developed country arrives, under-developed countries would be the last to receive it. Distributing a vaccine to a highly-populated country (which most under-developed countries are) would take an enormous amount of time and money, which during a pandemic most people don’t have. To contribute to these complications, infectious pathogens can have varying factors depending on the region, for example, a vaccine that works well in the United States may not be as effective in Ghana.Subsequently, clinical trials must be conducted within the developed world. Planning and executing a comprehensive clinical trial can be especially troublesome in resource-poor settings where infrastructure is inadequate.

Under-developed countries don’t have the foundational assets to treat this pandemic, developed countries should assist them. Developed countries can support under-developed countries, by growing official finance help, ease debt issues, and set universal solidarity support which other nations and the private corporation may join. For instance, the World Health Organization(WHO) needs to disseminate correct information and to rule out fake news, basically spreading awareness. Private sectors and pharmaceutical companies can contribute by reducing the debt burden in developing countries. While Covid-19 ravages the world (mostly developing countries), the international community has to work cooperatively together, in order to protect the world from upcoming problems and to prevent a world-wide disaster. Due to Covid-19 being a global issue, it has to be a global effort to treat and annihilate this pandemic.

Citations:

https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/news/editorial/2020/07/08/20/55/covid-19-challenges-in-the-developing- worldhttps://www.cnbc.com/id/44505017https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/developing-world-covid19/https://www.ghtcoalition.org/pdf/Investing-in-Vaccines-for-the-Developing-World.pdf