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Early reports on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case fatalities in India suggests that males are at a greater disadvantage than females, but it is unclear whether males experience a higher risk of mortality throughout the age-spectrum or there are sex-differentials in survival risk. We adopt a gender lens and present a disaggregated view of age-sex specific COVID-19 infection and mortality risk in India.

5 years on from the devasting earthquake in Nepal, Kripa Basnyat (LSE) and Dipti Tamang (Darjeeling
Government College in West Bengal, India) explain the fundamental role Nepalese women played in the
country’s response to the natural disaster, and what lessons we can learn when confronting the country’s response
to current COVID-19 global epidemic.

The impact of the ongoing pandemic is having different effects on men and women, yet the
government has failed to take these differences on board when responding to the situation. Jenna
Norman sets out the immediate areas that need to be addressed, both as a response to this
specific emergency but also in terms of long-term change.

On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP)
which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic environment and the private
sector and to ease the impact on laborers, workers, and households. The CERP action plan
should pay explicit attention to gender discrepancies to avoid unintentional harm or
aggravating existing gender inequalities.