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A year on, mind the gaps in the pandemic response -JVR Prasada Rao and Amartya Chowdhury

-The Hindu

India needs to revisit its disease control strategy to ensure a more robust and humane response in similar crises

January 30, 2021 marked one year since India detected its first case of COVID-19 — a student in Kerala who had returned from Wuhan, China.

Analysing the country’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic so far reveals a mixed bag of successes and failures along with a host of unknowns looming ahead, that urgently need to be addressed to both limit damage due to the pandemic and get back to the path of economic and social recovery.

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