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- Editorial by Sunita Narain
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- Stories from Down To Earth
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| Sunita Narain |
| Editor, Down To Earth |
 Twitter: @sunitanar
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| Contours of coronavirus |
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Call it the revenge of the bug. The new coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, has done to the Chinese economy what US President Donald Trump could not do. It has wreaked havoc in the world’s second-largest economy; grinding it to a halt; shutting down its cities; and, isolating its people.
Today, we are seeing perhaps the largest effort ever to contain the spread of this infection — Chinese President Xi Jinping called it a people’s war on the virus. But the worrying question is this: With more than 1,600 deaths and nearly 70,000 people infected in just about a month, how long will it last? The virus stays dormant over two weeks — that is even if people are infected, the symptoms do not show.
The good news is that the mortality rate is low; but on the other hand, the fear of contagion is high as the virus moves through the air from people to people. So, the answer is to ensure that anyone possibly exposed is isolated and quarantined.
But what does this mean for an inter-connected world, which has broken every record in terms of trans-boundary movement of people and trade? Consider this. In 2003, when the world witnessed the first such global health crisis, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), China accounted for only 4 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP). Today it is 16 per cent. Business begins and ends in China. It is the world’s ultimate supply chain.
So, this health crisis will disrupt business all across the world. Also, now, the movement of people is massive and this is why the movement of the virus is also so fast. There is no doubt that governments are stepping in; closing doors. But it shows our common vulnerability; how quickly a common cold can become a global contagion...
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Breathing Space
How to Track and Report Air Pollution under the National Clean Air Programme
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State of India’s Environment 2020
India’s most credible annual statement on the state of affairs in environment and development
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Body Burden: Antibiotic Resistance
State of India’s Health
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