Heat, Locusts, Coronavirus Threaten India

New Delhi city, the federal capital of India, witnessed yesterday the highest temperature degree registered in May within 18 years.

An unprecedented heat wave is still hitting the Indian territories throughout the fourth week of May.

Temperature degree in New Delhi reached 47,7 C and it hit 50 C degree at Shuru in the neighboring state of Rajasthan. This area was considered as the hottest patch across India.

Meteorologists warn that the dry northwestern wind that is blowing up the middle plains of India caused  severe heat in the last few days.

However, the heat wave is expected to clear off tomorrow, Thursday. However, the freak heat did not cause any deaths so far.

Last year, Interior Ministry in India revealed that 3500 passed out over heat waves that hit the country between 2015 and 2019.

The heat wave was one of a number of disasters took place in India in the course of the last few weeks. The disasters included the novel Coronavirus, a strong hurricane and the worst invasion of the swarms of locust in the last three decades. The swarms of the greedy insect devoured crops and threaten millions of Indians with starvation.

On the other hand, the United Nation has issued a report draws a dreadful image of the world economy.

The report warns of precedent rates of unemployment and poverty in the world during the period to come as an expected fallout of the Coronavirus which threatens the planet now.

The deadly virus ( known also as the COVID-19) has infected more than three million people in the world so far.

The UN report on April indicated that about 195 million persons will lose jobs due to the Coronavirus. This leads to more poverty and other social problems in the world.

Experts of the UN stressed that economic crisis related to the COVID-19 pushes the world economy towards depression like the great Depression that hit the world economy in the end of the 30s of the 20th century.

The report went on to say that the small and medium-sized firms, farmers, refugees, immigrants are the most vulnerable categories which inflicted by the impacts of the Coronavirus.

The economists warn that the world is about to enter into a new passive depression over the period to come.

The envisioned slump will be the most dangerous since the 1930s.

Many governments across the globe have ordered their national companies to suspend their activities and instructed their peoples to stay at home.

Despite the sinister expectations, the experts affirm that the depression may hold for a short period. Economists at the Stanley Morgan Bank forecast the slump will run for short range. But they point out that economies of the developed nations will return to the previous levels of growth by the third quarter of the next year.

However, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has warned that the Coronavirus would leave about one billion at the age of work, without jobs in all parts of the planet.

The organization released a statement said that those who will not lose their jobs may suffer from reducing wages. Restaurants, hotels, retail and various industries are the most vulnerable sectors in the world economy.

Those sectors were hurt excessively due to the deadly virus which the World Health Organization on March 10, declared as pandemic.

The ILO urges the governments to offer immediate aids to the employees and companies to protect the workforce against either dismal or shut down. The statement of the ILO expected that work hours in the world will be reduced by 6.7% throughout the second quarter of the current year.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned that the world economy stopped, adding that the current depression is worst than the other of 2008-2009.