Behind the Mask: A Book On Covid-19 And Its Socio-Economic Impact

The novel coronavirus has infected over 5.5 million people across the world. As countries grapple to contain the Covid-19 crisis, it’s important to discuss the socio-economic fallout of the pandemic.

Mohammed Abdul Mannan’s Behind the Mask answers these questions. The book details the origin and spread of the coronavirus and how it has made the world sick, panicky and topsy-turvy.

How a virus one billionth of a metre size could trigger the 21st century’s second pandemic and why the 15th largest pandemic since the 14th century is massively disruptive on all-fronts. Can the world handle a ‘biblical proportions’ famine and will the world recoup from the US$9 trillion economic impact? The book discusses every aspect of socio-economic impacts of the global pandemic.

This is the eighth book by Mannan who has worked for Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express and India Today, Doordarshan and Zee TV in the past. He also worked as the launch News Editor of Qatar’s second English broadsheet daily, The Peninsula, and later joined Khaleej Times in Dubai. He took a plunge into PR and Corporate Communications with Dubai and Abu Dhabi tourism regulatory bodies. Winner of the first Qatar Tourism Award, his best-seller book had been Dubai – A City Making History.

Behind the Mask is available in print and digital format on Amazon.