Organizational Behaviour

Introduction

 Emergence of Corona Virus and Global Pandemic:

A novel coronavirus (CoV) is a new strain of coronavirus. The disease caused by the novel
coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, has been named coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) – ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease.
Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019-nCoV.’The
COVID-19 virus is a new virus linked to the same family of viruses as severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) and some types of common cold.

The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns
of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicentres
of the pandemic. Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the
country on 25 March. A second wave beginning in March 2021 was much more devastating
than the first, with shortages of vaccines, hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and other medical
supplies in parts of the country.

How this pandemic hit the life of common people can be seen by the rising cases since its
inception in India:

 Major factor responsible for the spread:

 Hiding travel history: People did not reveal their travel history even after symptoms, which
misleads the health care provider and exposes them to the susceptibility of infection.
Further, affected individuals are careless in taking preventive and control measures and they
do not restrict their travel, socialization, which further increases the chances of transmission
of the infection

 Emerging racial attacks: The incidence of expressing frustration and discrimination against
individuals having a Mongoloid appearance are of concern since this only leads to a
division and not a combined effort in putting the war against COVID-19 spread
wholeheartedly by every citizen of India

 Mixing Moving and Travelling: People letting their guards down became a major factor in
the spread, most of them were attending events, functions, mixing with each other even after
government restrictions. Travelling and migration of the lower working class and rural areas
people also led to big cause for the spread.
 Fast-moving variants: The virus that causes COVID-19 is constantly changing, and new

variants of the virus started spreading in various regions of country. Sometimes new variants

emerge and disappear. Other times, new variants persist. Variants like Delta that lead to the

second wave was much more severe than the previous ones.

 Role of Carelessness and How to Address it :

There is need to guard against carelessness in the fight against COVID-19 and people.

Carelessness has slowly crept inside people's mentality regarding COVID-19 which has

lead to such a serious surge of infection rates and deaths.  It was very unfortunate to see

people were not following the health safety norms set by experts to fight against the

pandemic. Carelessness played a major role in the unstoppable spread of Coronavirus and

we tried to address the problems faced by the public and what could have been there

appropriate solutions.