The Hindu Editorial (Staying alert) – Jul 03, 2020

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The Hindu Editorial (Staying alert) – Jul 03, 2020

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alert (adjective) – aware, attentive, vigilant, watchful.
at the expense of (phrase) – at the cost of, at the loss of; at the sacrifice of.
Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) (noun) – It is one of the major National Health Programme under National Health Mission for all States & UTs in India. The key objective of the programme is to strengthen/maintain decentralized laboratory based IT enabled disease surveillance system for epidemic prone diseases to monitor disease trends and to detect and respond to outbreaks in early rising phase through trained Rapid Response Team (RRTs). Courtesy : idsp.nic.in)
backbone (noun) – chief support, fundamental part, mainstay, pillar.
emergence (noun) – arrival, appearance, coming.
outbreak (noun) – sudden appearance/occurrence, outburst, eruption, flare-up.
surge (noun) – sudden increase, rise, growth.
novel (adjective) – new, unusual, different, unfamiliar.
pathogen (noun) – bacteria/virus that causes disease.
remedial (adjective) – beneficial, corrective, healing.
advent (noun) – arrival, appearance, emergence.
veil (verb) – conceal, hide, cover, screen, camouflage, cloak.
for one (phrase) – to emphasize that a particular person is definitely viewing in a specific way, even if other people are not.
alert (noun) – warning, caution, notification.
correspond to (verb) – relate to, conform to, correlate to.
escalate (verb) – increase, rise, soar, surge (rapidly); become more serious.
pandemic (noun) – the worldwide spread of a new disease; The illness spreads around the world and typically affects a large number of people across a wide area.
lockdown (noun) – an emergency protocol implemented by the authorities that prevents people from leaving from a place; An extended state of confinement/encirclement/isolation of a person by the authority.
the new normal (phrase) – an earlier unusual situation that becomes a standard now.
standstill (noun) – halt, stop, deadlock, impasse, stalemate/stand-off.
shut (verb) – close, lock.
neglect (noun) – negligence, lack of concern, laxity, disregard, ignoring; failure to take proper care/action.
independently (adverb) – on one’s own, alone, separately, individually.
borne out past participle of bear out (phrasal verb) – confirm, validate, vindicate, justify/ support (a claim).
Ayushman Bharat (noun) – Ayushman Bharat is National Health Protection Scheme in India, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary (highly specialized) care hospitalization.
akin (adjective) – similar, related, equivalent.
contagious (adjective) – relating to a disease/infection that can spread rapidly from person to person through direct contact, by touching a person who has the infection; communicable, transmittable, infectious.
contract (verb) – become infected with, fall ill with; catch, develop (a disease).
contaminated (adjective) – polluted, adulterated, poisonous.
airborne (adjective) – transported/carried by the air.
deliberate upon (verb) – think about, ponder, consider (something very carefully).
modelling (noun) – the modelling of infectious diseases is a tool that has been used to study the mechanisms by which diseases spread, to predict the future course of an outbreak and to evaluate strategies to control an epidemic.
quite (adverb) – completely, fully, entirely, obviously.
forecast (verb) – predict, foresee, foretell, forewarn.
affliction (noun) – misfortune, suffering, pain, trouble.
surveillance (noun) – monitoring, observation, scrutiny, inspection.
crunch (noun) – a severe shortage of something.
mirror (verb) – reflect, reproduce, follow, correspond to.
debatable (adjective) – controversial, questionable, disputable.
timely (adjective) – opportune, well timed, at the right time, appropriate.