COVID-19 or Coronavirus like pandemic may happen again? Here's what experts claim

COVID-19 or the Coronavirus became pandemic after World Health Organization declared it so on March 11, 2020. Subsequently, human lives around the world changed forever. While the impact of Covid has subsided, experts have claimed that next pandemic could strike anytime, as per a report Sky News.

Infectious disease experts in the UK have said that there are chances of virus getting transmitted from animal to humans and causing a pandemic again, the Sky News report said.
While timeline of future pandemic, if any, has not been specified by experts but they have exhorted not to let the guards down, as per the report.

Global Warming, Deforestation

As humanity stands at the precipice of environmental crisis, scientists sound the clarion call, warning of the perilous convergence of global warming and rampant deforestation. Amidst this tumultuous landscape, a haunting specter looms—an ominous portent of a potential pandemic sparked by the leap of a viral or bacterial agent from its animal host to unsuspecting humans.

Each swath of forest felled, each degree of rising temperature, serves as a catalyst, amplifying the probability of such a cataclysmic event. In this crucible of ecological upheaval, the delicate balance between species becomes increasingly fragile, beckoning humanity to heed the urgent plea for environmental stewardship before the next pandemic emerges from the shadows, casting its devastating shadow upon the world.

Covid - Worst Killers Since 1918

Globally, COVID ranks among the worst killers since 1900. AIDS, for example, is estimated to have killed about 40 million people, but over a half-century rather than only four years. The 1918 flu killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people.

Among high-income countries, the US has had one of the highest COVID tolls. The excess-death rate here, as a study by Jennifer Nuzzo and Jorge Ledesma of Brown University notes, has been much higher than in Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, South Korea or Australia.

In addition to deaths from the virus, long COVID -- which scientists still don't understand -- has afflicted many people.

FAQs:

Q1. When was Covid 19 declared a 'pandemic'?
A1. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 -- or "the coronavirus," to be a pandemic.

Q2. What is another name of Covid-19?
A2. Another name of Covid-19 is Coronavirus


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