{"id":241508,"date":"2023-05-09T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241508"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:16:09","slug":"of-hope-and-vigilance-whos-announcement-gives-hope-but-there-is-a-message-of-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/of-hope-and-vigilance-whos-announcement-gives-hope-but-there-is-a-message-of-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Of hope and vigilance – WHO\u2019s announcement gives hope, but there is a message of caution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cOf hope and vigilance – WHO\u2019s announcement gives hope, but there is a message of caution\u201d <\/b><\/strong>published in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a09th\u00a0May 2023<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the WHO Declaration on COVID Pandemic.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a global emergency status \u2013 \u2018Public Health Emergency of International Concern\u2019 or \u2018PHEIC\u2019.<\/p>\n

What is the Public Health Emergency of International Concern(PHEIC)?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here: Public Health Emergency of International Concern(PHEIC)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About the WHO Declaration on COVID Pandemic<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read more: COVID pandemic is no longer an emergency, declares WHO<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What tasks should the nations focus upon?<\/h2>\n

Eternal vigilance on mutations<\/strong>: The WHO and nations have to ensure that the WHO announcement is not selectively received. The nations have to pay attention to multiple variants and sub-variants that continue to emerge regularly.<\/p>\n

The nations must understand that at any point in time, it is possible that a new variant, or recombinant may lead to rapid transmission and cause severe disease, resulting in hospitalisations and even higher mortality rates.<\/p>\n

Periodic drills for testing their health capability<\/strong>: The nations need to periodically test their capacity to respond to epidemic situations.<\/p>\n

Utilise the infrastructure built during the pandemic<\/strong>: During the pandemic times, the governments built INSACOG laboratories that are capable of genetic sequencing. Similarly, other health infrastructures were also built. All these must be utilised well.<\/p>\n

Increase R&D funding<\/strong>: The government should increase research and development funding into vaccine platforms, drug delivery systems, antivirals, and antibiotics. This will enable nations to be prepared for any upcoming health concerns.<\/p>\n

Apart from nations, individuals should follow the hygiene and precautions that became a habit during the COVID years, particularly a)<\/strong> adhering to the vaccination schedule, b)<\/strong> following hand hygiene and c)<\/strong> masking under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cOf hope and vigilance – WHO\u2019s announcement gives hope, but there is a message of caution\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a09th\u00a0May 2023 Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health. Relevance: About the WHO Declaration on COVID Pandemic. News: Recently,… Continue reading Of hope and vigilance – WHO\u2019s announcement gives hope, but there is a message of caution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-241508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703552094},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}