Masood Khan also highlights negative and positive impacts of Covid-19 on environment
MUZAFFARABAD:
AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has urged scientists, bioscientists, doctors, and public health researchers to conduct studies on emerging zoonotic and zoonoses diseases and the transmission of these diseases from animals to humans so that precautionary measures can be taken against these ailments and pandemics.
He remarked this while speaking as Chief Guest at an international webinar on “Impact of Covid-19 on Environment: Challenges and Opportunities” organised by the Women s University Bagh.
“We have never seen a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic in human history which has engulfed the whole world and not just one country or the region,” the president said.
Civil rights group plans online homage to Corona spate every Friday starting May 7
Counterview Desk
A civil rights organisation, Rashtra Seva Dal (RSD), which claims to work to promote democracy, secularism, Constitutional values, equality and scientific thinking, has decided to offer collective homage for victims of the corona spate, which it says is both “biological and ideological.”
Titled Friday Flame: For a Fear Free India , and proposed as anon-line homage and tribute, the on-line shraddhanjali, says an email alert to Counterview by well-known linguist Ganesh Devy, president, RSD, “will include lighting five candles or diyas, symbolising Courage, Unity, and Hope, Freedom and Equality, and two-three minutes short speeches in memory of the the departed.”
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