Short Essay

Understanding COVID-19 Situation in India from Inequality Study

Soumendra Nath Ruz

Department of Physics, Ramananda Centenary College, Laulara, Purulia, India – 723151

Email: ruzfromju@gmail.com

In this article I have studied the inequality in the state-wise number of COVID-19 infected people in India from various aspects. Inequality was measured usingthe Gini index. The time period of this study is from March 2020 to July 2022. In this study, the temporal variation of the Gini index for inequalities in state-wise number of new COVID-19 infected people per 5 days shows oscillatory in nature. This clearly indicates that inequality has some realistic upper and lower limits. This is different from the theoretical upper and lower limit of the Gini index which are 1 and 0 respectively. Comparing this sinusoidal curve with temporal variation of COVID-19 infected people in every 5 days, one can also predict the coming situation of COVID-19 in India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64456/panch2025v16i2.06