COVID-19 will not stop due to lockdown

LOCKDOWN WONT HELP INDIA FROM PANDEMIC COVID-19

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                              The COVID-19 pandemic has will not stop due to a lockdown, and continue to spread, said Dr Richard A Cash, public health researcher at the Department of Global Health at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. Dr Cash has worked on infectious disease issues in South Asia for over 50 years.

             “India should take into account its demography and resources and not try to mimic other systems,” Dr Cash said during a webinar on the response to COVID-19 in South Asia.

            Countering his approach to India – that it should not have followed the same pattern of lockdown like other countries — Dr Srinath Reddy, president of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), who participated in the webinar, said no lockdown is cent per cent successful.

             “The decision for a lockdown was not an easy one and it is a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. While there will be a spillover of cases, at least this lockdown has helped reduce the infection spread rate. “The syndromic surveillance of households has not shown a major case load,” Dr Reddy said. He said another takeaway was that the tone and tenor of political debate had softened and Centre and states were unanimous in their approach to prevent COVID-19.  

                 Thus in the last week Rahul Gandhi has also said that due to lockdown the covid-19 won’t stop. Government has to take responsive measures.