Covid will cost global economy $11tn: Study

Bengaluru: The Covid-19 pandemic is pegged to cost the global economy $11.5 trillion, including $5 trillion to $5.6 trillion in GDP, says an analysis by experts from the fields of medicine, economics, the environment and conservation.

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A voter in PPE kit arrives to cast vote during local body polls in Thiruvananthapuram on Tueday

For a century two new viruses per year have have spilled from their natural hosts into humans, says the paper authored by 17 experts — from institutes like Princeton University, University of Wisconsin, Rice University, and Duke Kunshan in China — and published in the journal “Science”. And, MERS, SARS, and the H1N1 epidemics, the HIV and Covid-19 pandemics testify to the damage done.