March, 6th 2020
Brace up to fight community transmission: WHO on
coronavirus
The accelerating spread
of the coronavirus created new barriers between the world regions and
people. British airways flybe’s collapse and blocking Italian from
visiting elderly relatives in nursery homes.
The World Health Organization
urged the country to push this virus back a call to action reinforced by
figures showing here and now about 17 times as many new infections outside
China as in it. that the virus has infected nearly 97000 people and killed over
3300.countries should be preparing for sustained community transmission World
Health Organization chief said that our message to all countries is this is not
a One Way Street we can push this virus back. Your action now will determine
the course of the outbreak in your country.
As Chinese manufacturers
gradually reopened their factory, anti-virus barriers went up elsewhere. In
Italy workers in latex gloves pinned closed notice on school gets reinforcing a
10 days shutdown of the education system. Government decrease that took
effect Thursday urged the famously demonstrative Italian to stay at least 1
metre apart from each other. Italy epicenter of the outbreak in Europe has
registered 107. That's the same number as Iran which has also closed schools
and universities. To fight its spreading outbreak the Islamic Republic
introduced checkpoints to Limit Travels between major cities. Italian were
urged to reduce their use of paper money and have gas station attendants feel
their thanks.
Travelers faced ever
greater destruction as countries sought to keep the virus out. but South Africa
confirmed its first case on Thursday becoming the seventh African Nation to
report infections.
Australia banned Travelers
from South Korea who aren’t Australian citizens or permanent residents
following similar bans for China and Iran. The UAE warned its people not
to travel anywhere abroad.
In the US where 11 have
died from the virus, hundreds of people were placed in self quarantine
time due to cases in New York. In many places shoppers emptied stock of hand
sanitizers and face masks. in South Korea which has the highest number of
infections outside China exports of masks will be prohibited from Friday and
people will be limited to buy two masks a week.
In China where hospitals
were released hundreds of recovered patient officials reported 139 new
cases and 31 more deaths. in all the country has reported 18409 cases and
312. more than two third of those in China who contracted the virus have been
discharged from hospital
Coronavirus
hit aviation may top 100 billion dollar
Airlines would lose up
to 113 billion dollar in revenues this year due to the coronavirus, equivalent
to the damage experienced by the industries during the financial crisis. The prediction
came into flybe collapsed into bankruptcy with the virus daily a fatal blow to
the ailing British carrier. In a new assessment of the impact, the
international air transport Association estimated revenue losses to Airlines
businesses of between 63 billion dollar and 113 billion dollar in 2020. the
higher figure is for a scenario where virus spread more widely and would be
equal equivalent to the heat to the industry during the 2007 to 2008 global
financial crisis.
Screening
extended even to transit fliers from hotspots Italy and Iran
Fliers arriving even
indirectly from Italy and Iran will now be screened for COVID-19 at Indian
airports. Those coming directly from two countries and from East Asian airports
are already being screened for the new coronavirus. the DGCA in its latest
circular has extended the medical screening to a passenger arriving from Italy
and Iran via transit hub mainly Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi.
The concern raised that
exempting passengers from Iran and Italy who fly into India after transit halts
mainly in West Asia could pose problems is transit airports are points where
hundreds of passengers including those from some of the worst affected COVID-19
countries. Also a large number of India bound passengers from the US Europe and
Africa land in West Asian airports first. For instance, India has been the
number one International tourist source market for Dubai for a few years now.
9 days ago Dubai banned
flights from Iranian airports to save Tehran. On Tuesday Dubai airport tweeted
that all flights from Iran were being banned and thermal scanners would screen
passengers for symptoms.
But the airline medical
officer set even do airports in West Asia or screening passenger time in from
Italy and Iran with thermal scanner this is not a full proof method of
detection. An asymptomatic patient of one who has taken symptomatic
treatment could escape The scanner and board on onward flight.
The DGCA said in
circular passenger foreign and Indian arriving directly or indirectly
from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Nepal, Thailand and Singapore must undergo medical screening at the port of
entry for stop any flight landing in India must submit personal detail and
travel history to health officials in immigration officer at all ports.