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ABSTRACT
The pandemic has wiped out over 4 million human lives and caused huge economic loss. As poverty forecasts famine, the super-rich became richer. The consequence of the pandemic has also shrunk the democratic space. In selected cases, the growing perception of social inequality matched the number of caseloads of infections and deaths. The response to the pandemic varied depending not only on the effectiveness of the responses by the respective governments but also by the presence of scientific thinking in society. The pandemic and the distribution of vaccine highlighted the need for interdependence and cooperation between the nations. It has also created a need for renewing global justice based on humanity and rationality in the post-pandemic world.
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1 Data as of 30 June Citation2021 (Worldometers).
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Habibul Haque Khondker
Habibul Haque Khondker is a professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His most recent work is Covid-19 and governance (Routledge 2021) co-edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim.