Problems faced by during Covid 19(Essay with 200 hundred words)
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Not everyone agrees, expectedly. “The lockdown was timely. Any delay could have resulted in a spike in cases. Without doubt, the lockdown has been costly in terms of increasing hunger and rural distress but the benefits are significant in terms of a smaller projected epidemic peak,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Washington-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. Agrees Gautam Menon, professor of physics and biology at Ashoka University, who has an interest in infectious diseases modelling: “You can fault the government in their preparation. But the decision to lockdown was very brave and the right one.” Varying outcomes from iron-handed China, dismissive US, dithering Italy and procrastinating Spain have all shown the importance of a lockdown in dealing with Covid-19. Bear in mind that India entered the Covid-19 battlefield with its hands tied – a fragile and under-funded public healthcare system and a sluggish economy. “India deployed the most potent weapon it had at its disposal. A 21-day lockdown,” says Oommen C Kurian, head of health initiative at the Observer Research Foundation.
The extraordinary, high-stakes situation makes navigation tricky for decision makers.
“The virus is a known unknown. The situation is evolving rapidly. We are taking very tough decisions. Some assumptions will hold, some may not. We will have the ability to change things as we go. In a country of 1.3 billion people, to do things we have done requires tremendous courage,” says K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.
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