covid considering that professionals, including healthcare workers, are vulnerable to the virus.The Directorate General of Factory Advisory Services and Labour Institutes (DGFASLI), which comes under the ministry of labour and employment, has constituted an academic committee to study the impact of covid-19 on professionals.The move is in line with the recommendation of the World Health Organization report titled Preventing and Mitigating Covid-19 at Work Policy.
According to the WHO document, an occupational surveillance system for covid-19 enables public health officials and employers to evaluate the efficacy of workplace interventions and is critical to understanding the true impact of the pandemic on professions.The major occupational.