New Delhi, May 15 -- The COVID 19 pandemic has spread at a mind-boggling pace in more than 210 countries and territories spanning the entire globe. The frenetic pace of the spread and reach of the pandemic underscores the inter-connectedness and proximity of geographically spread-out but economically interdependent economies.

A case in point is the mobility of human beings across and within national boundaries. The initial spread of the crisis was triggered by the mobility of infected people within and across national boundaries. Now the restrictions on such mobility are debilitating economies, especially livelihoods, and adding the layer of an economic disaster to the pandemic.

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