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An all-encompassing book detailing every socio-economic impact of the 21st century’s second pandemic has been published, offering readers engrossing reportage abouy coronavirus in both print and digital formats.

Titled Behind the Mask, the book, through 16 exhaustive chapters, details the origin and the global spread of Covid-19 and how it continues to make the world sick, panicky and topsy-turvy.

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The book has well-researched and facts-laden contents about how a virus one billionth of a metre size triggered the 21st century’s second pandemic and why the 15th largest pandemic since the 14th century is massively disruptive. It details the US$9 trillion impacts on the economy, tourism, airlines, airports, environment and public transport, among others.

This is the eighth book by the author who had previously worked with Indian Express and India Today. Winner of the first Qatar Tourism Award, his best-selling book had been Dubai – A City Making History. He is the founder-editor of Via Dubai, a bilingual magazine.