People in India are greatly divided when it comes to abiding rules following social ethics and adhering to healthy lifestyle . In the wake of the recent pandemic this divide has become evident . Write a letter to the editor of a national daily expressing your views about the importance of being a responsible citizen of your country . Suggest ways how and when moral responsibilities towards our nation can be acquired . Raise your concern about the lackadaisical attitude of some citizens of our country.
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Then we had the second stage, of ‘local transmission’, wherein contacts of the patients developed the disease. At this stage, Indian public health officials continued contact-tracing and also instituted the ‘delay measures’ in the form of social-distancing, and closed offices, schools and colleges and advised against large gatherings like weddings.
Next, India expects the stage of ‘community spread’. In this stage, people with no history of contact with visitors from foreign countries or with their contacts acquire the COVID-19 infection. In the community spread stage, we need to concentrate on delay and mitigation strategies by strictly implementing social-distancing.
The last and most extreme stage is the epidemic phase, where we can have hundreds or thousands of patients with the disease within the country. In this stage of the epidemic, the most reliable control measure is an extreme mitigation step known as ‘suppression’ or ‘lockdown’. Most countries, including France, Italy and the US, initiated a lockdown at the epidemic stage. But by this time, several hundred patients were already dead in these countries.
India has followed the same strategy of containment, delay and mitigation. But the difference is we followed a quicker transition from one stage to the next relative to those in other countries. India hasn’t yet confirmed the presence of community transmission of the new coronavirus but we can’t definitively rule out this stage either. The government has already taken the extraordinary step of implementing a lockdown, the extreme mitigation measure, at a very early stage of the outbreak. Unlike other countries that initiated a lockdown at the epidemic stage, our country initiated a lockdown at the local spread stage itself.
Explanation:
From March 25, India initiated the most extreme step in the mitigation strategy of COVID-19 control: the lockdown. This is a very courageous step by the Indian government, and as responsible citizens we need to abide by its instructions. If we are instructed to remain at home, we need to!
Most countries follow the containment, delay and mitigation stepwise strategy to control COVID-19.
In the very early stage, people who had recently travelled to other countries tested positive. This is the ‘stage of imported cases’. India followed the ‘containment strategy’ at this stage: we isolated these patients, tracked their contacts and quarantined them.