Question

write a report on pandemic situation in our country and your role as the citizen​

Answer 1

Answer:

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.