When an epidemic of a highly contagious disease spreads across a large region (even worldwide) it is called a pandemic. It is different from a widespread endemic disease that infects a sizable population across the world simultaneously, such as influenza. It is different from a disease like cancer, which also has thousands, but is not contagious. Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General and interim for Health Security and Environment, WHO, has said: “An easy way to think about pandemic ... is to say a pandemic is a global outbreak. Then you might ask yourself ‘what is a global outbreak?’ A global outbreak means that we see both the spread of the agent ... and then we see disease activities in addition to the spread of the virus.” The Black Death or Plague, which ravaged the world in the 14th century, is believed to have been the most fatal pandemic in history; it killed approximately 75 to 200 million people. Some other pandemics that affected a huge population across the world are tuberculosis, the Russian flu, the Asian flu, Cholera, the Hong Kong flu, and the most recent and ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 percent. “The information we have now about the impact of COVID-19 on the world’s mental health is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. More
In its analysis, IATA found that the most common type of unruly passenger was non-compliant, verbally abusive and intoxicated.
In the spring of 2020, pandemic restrictions significantly reduced industrial activity and transportation worldwide, both of which are known to cause emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants leading to aerosol formation.
The consortium comprising Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer Stadler Rail and Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives was the only other player that took part in this tender with a bid of nearly Rs 170 crore per train.
Just days after announcing an end of Covid0-19 as a global emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked world to be prepared of a deadlier pandemic. The WHO maintains a list of “priority diseases” that pose a significant risk of causing the next pandemic. Familiar names like Ebola, SARS and Zika have secured their place on this register, but there is one entry that stands out with an ominous moniker — Disease X. What is this ‘Disease X’? Watch the video to find out!
The ominous moniker 'Disease X' serves as a placeholder for an unknown pathogen that has yet to be identified by medical science as a cause of human infections.
April Aviation Data released by DGCA shows that air traffic has surpassed pre-COVID levels. In April 2019, domestic airlines flew only 109.95 lakh passengers against 128.8 lakh this April.
Developers say they had paid the premiums upfront during the 50 percent waiver on charges announced by the state government in 2021; projects were delayed due to various reasons that were not in the hands of the developers.
IndiGo is seeing robust demand for flying in current quarter and yield in the current quarter were higher when compared on year to a capacity constraints in the domestic Indian market.
A real estate CEO has placed the blame for slowing economy squarely on the shoulders of 'selfish' remote workers who refuse to return to office.
The DGCA has also imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India for the delay in reporting the episode.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has also warned of the ongoing impact of Long Covid, which provokes a long line of often severe and debilitating symptoms that can drag on for months or years.
Apple is, however, cutting costs and has slowed down on its rate of hiring
Sitharaman said that due to the pandemic in the past couple of years the counties have knowingly gone into a situation of high debt but a fiscal glide path was necessary in the long term.
In its petition in the Delaware Court, GoFirst said that between 2016 and February 2023, the airline carried out 289 Engine Changes and 221 Engine Swaps.
Amazon Web Services personnel in the US, Canada and Costa Rica whose jobs were being eliminated were notified early Wednesday, the unit’s chief said in an email to staff.
Valued at about $17 million over the tenure of the lease, it is spread across two floors of the 7,00,000 sq ft building; the company has the option to take on an additional 56,000 sq ft.
From 2019, the number of gift deeds registered increased to 8,694 in 2020, nearly doubled to 16,322 in 2021, and 20,843 in 2022. Up to March this year, 3,287 gift deeds have been registered. The reason for this is a heightened sense of mortality among people.
Amazon Business' gross sales in Europe grew at a compound annual rate of 25% from 2020 to 2022, vice president Alexandre Gagnon said in an interview.
As G20 Health Working Group, we are heading in the right direction toward jointly creating a positive impact for future global health architecture,” Mandaviya said.
The regulators' advisory comes on the backdrop of rising incidents involving disorderly passengers onboard flights.
The company is focussing more on inland container depots and less on container freight stations.
The airline has partnered with DreamFolks Services, an airport lounges access aggregator, to offer their customers access to lounges for a fee when booking their ticket. Flyers can get lounge access up to 12 hours before departure, the airline said in its press release.
The lessors have written to India’s aviation regulator about the payment delays and they could ask for deregistration of the aircraft as the next step.
Rosters are being ignored and pilots are being harassed by management at Air India at the moment.
The locomotives are part of a massive order of 800 WAG-12B engines signed by the Indian Railways and Alstom in 2018 valued at Rs 40,000 crore, spread over 10 years.