Daily Analysis of 'The Hindu' - 7th April, 2020 | Additional Study Material for UPSC PDF Download

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MIND THE GAP
?For millennia, people travelled for reasons of religion and trade, and in recent 
decades increasingly for pleasure too.
?The germs that these travellers carried globalised many contagions.
?In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the 
novel coronavirus.
?Reason: China is at the centre of world trade and economy.
?China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of 
Europe and the U.S. included.
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MIND THE GAP
?For millennia, people travelled for reasons of religion and trade, and in recent 
decades increasingly for pleasure too.
?The germs that these travellers carried globalised many contagions.
?In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the 
novel coronavirus.
?Reason: China is at the centre of world trade and economy.
?China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of 
Europe and the U.S. included.
?At least 430,000 people travelled from China to the U.S. after the outbreak of the 
disease.
?Right now, all efforts and attention of the government must be on containment 
and mitigation.
?While legal and police action against those who are not cooperating with the 
official measures is essential, care must be taken against adding fuel to the fire of 
communalism.
?In any case, the battle against the virus must not deepen existing social fissures. 
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MIND THE GAP
?For millennia, people travelled for reasons of religion and trade, and in recent 
decades increasingly for pleasure too.
?The germs that these travellers carried globalised many contagions.
?In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the 
novel coronavirus.
?Reason: China is at the centre of world trade and economy.
?China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of 
Europe and the U.S. included.
?At least 430,000 people travelled from China to the U.S. after the outbreak of the 
disease.
?Right now, all efforts and attention of the government must be on containment 
and mitigation.
?While legal and police action against those who are not cooperating with the 
official measures is essential, care must be taken against adding fuel to the fire of 
communalism.
?In any case, the battle against the virus must not deepen existing social fissures. 
DO NO HARM
?‘Primum non nocere’ = ‘First, do no harm’
?Over the past week, chilling stories of assaults on health-care workers, on 
COVID-19 duty, have been reported.
?Two women doctors were injured.
?Earlier, there were reports of locals in Ranipura allegedly spitting at officials as 
they took up screening.
?Last week, doctors at Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital were attacked after a patient 
with multiple co-morbidities died of COVID-19.
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MIND THE GAP
?For millennia, people travelled for reasons of religion and trade, and in recent 
decades increasingly for pleasure too.
?The germs that these travellers carried globalised many contagions.
?In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the 
novel coronavirus.
?Reason: China is at the centre of world trade and economy.
?China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of 
Europe and the U.S. included.
?At least 430,000 people travelled from China to the U.S. after the outbreak of the 
disease.
?Right now, all efforts and attention of the government must be on containment 
and mitigation.
?While legal and police action against those who are not cooperating with the 
official measures is essential, care must be taken against adding fuel to the fire of 
communalism.
?In any case, the battle against the virus must not deepen existing social fissures. 
DO NO HARM
?‘Primum non nocere’ = ‘First, do no harm’
?Over the past week, chilling stories of assaults on health-care workers, on 
COVID-19 duty, have been reported.
?Two women doctors were injured.
?Earlier, there were reports of locals in Ranipura allegedly spitting at officials as 
they took up screening.
?Last week, doctors at Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital were attacked after a patient 
with multiple co-morbidities died of COVID-19.
?ASHA workers were reportedly attacked in Bengaluru, Karnataka, when they 
went to collect data on COVID-19 symptoms.
?12 people allegedly assaulted a health inspector and his team when they went 
there to isolate the family of a patient who had attended the Nizamuddin conclave.
?These attacks are a result of paranoia and are completely unmindful of the many 
risks health-care workers take on, merely doing their work in a pandemic 
situation such as this.
?In Wockhardt, doctors and workers have tested positive while treating patients.
?If these helpers are looked upon as the enemy, it only allows the true foe — the 
virus — to gather strength.
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MIND THE GAP
?For millennia, people travelled for reasons of religion and trade, and in recent 
decades increasingly for pleasure too.
?The germs that these travellers carried globalised many contagions.
?In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the 
novel coronavirus.
?Reason: China is at the centre of world trade and economy.
?China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of 
Europe and the U.S. included.
?At least 430,000 people travelled from China to the U.S. after the outbreak of the 
disease.
?Right now, all efforts and attention of the government must be on containment 
and mitigation.
?While legal and police action against those who are not cooperating with the 
official measures is essential, care must be taken against adding fuel to the fire of 
communalism.
?In any case, the battle against the virus must not deepen existing social fissures. 
DO NO HARM
?‘Primum non nocere’ = ‘First, do no harm’
?Over the past week, chilling stories of assaults on health-care workers, on 
COVID-19 duty, have been reported.
?Two women doctors were injured.
?Earlier, there were reports of locals in Ranipura allegedly spitting at officials as 
they took up screening.
?Last week, doctors at Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital were attacked after a patient 
with multiple co-morbidities died of COVID-19.
?ASHA workers were reportedly attacked in Bengaluru, Karnataka, when they 
went to collect data on COVID-19 symptoms.
?12 people allegedly assaulted a health inspector and his team when they went 
there to isolate the family of a patient who had attended the Nizamuddin conclave.
?These attacks are a result of paranoia and are completely unmindful of the many 
risks health-care workers take on, merely doing their work in a pandemic 
situation such as this.
?In Wockhardt, doctors and workers have tested positive while treating patients.
?If these helpers are looked upon as the enemy, it only allows the true foe — the 
virus — to gather strength.
?WHO too has developed guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the 
health sector to support the development of violence prevention policies in non-
emergency settings.
?Baskut Tuncak, UN Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the 
environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and 
wastes, hailed health-care workers as heroes who must be protected. 
?Stating that the tireless work and self-sacrifice of these workers show the best of 
humanity, he also went on to emphasise that unacceptable shortages in critical 
protective equipment that can stop them from being infected, continue to plague 
nearly all nations battling COVID-19.
?The responsibility of restoring order and ensuring the safety of all health workers, 
whether with personal protective equipment, or against attacks from the public 
ultimately rests with the government, and in equal measure, the people.