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  Let us understand what a Pandemic is.   According to WHO, pandemic means the ‘worldwide spread of a new disease’. The word "pandemic" comes from the Greek "pan-", "all" + "demos," "people or population" = "pandemos" = "all the people." In simple words, any new disease that has spread across a country, continent or around the world can be categorized as pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Global Impact of Covid-19 as on 26th May 2021: As per WHO statistics, Globally , there have been  167,423,479 confirmed cases  of COVID-19, including  3,480,480 deaths , reported to WHO. Such is the widespread impact of this Pandemic. History: The last major pandemic is referred to the Spanish Flu of 1918. From January 1918 to December 1920, an estimated 500 million people wer...

  Technology has been playing a vey important role in our life, right from the days of  the first Industrial revolution in later part of 18th century. Earlier signs of advent of technology was basically into the production of goods. Goods were produced by skilled craftsman by hand painstakingly. The production of goods shifted from skilled craftsman  to mass production by use of machines in factories. The early examples are of textile & iron making. Prior to the Industrial revolution, the textile business was performed in homes by individual spinners & weavers & in small workshops. In the mid 18th century, the innovations like flying shuttle, the water frame & the power loom enabled  spinning the yarn and thread , weaving the textile much easier. The second sector that adopted the technology was iron industry. The technique was smelting of iron ore with coke ( a material made by the coal). This method  was not only cost effective, but helped in ...