According to a study by The Lancet journal, nine large States, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Telangana, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha, and Gujarat, have high vulnerability to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
As per scientists, vulnerability in the research means the risk of consequences of infection, including spread, morbidity, mortality and socioeconomic effects of the pandemic.
They identified a number of vulnerable districts in India, which currently do not have large numbers of Covid-19 cases but could be strongly impacted by the pandemic.
A State may be low in overall vulnerability but may be high on a particular domain, they said.