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Government Actions: A Colossal Test of Safeguarding Rights Amidst Covid-19

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Government Actions: A Colossal Test of Safeguarding Rights Amidst Covid-19

Animesh Upadhyay and Rushali Paneri

May 9, 2020 11:40:03 pm

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is now known to every country, city, town, village and family. The pandemic is spreading like wildfire and the human race is fighting every second to defeat this invisible enemy. On the 12th of March, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic and India on 22nd March, 2020, initiated the Janta [...]

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