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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Are Distress Deaths Necessary Collateral Damage of Covid-19 Response? The Experience of First Three Weeks of the Lockdown in India -Vikas Rawal, Karthik A Manickem and Vivek Rawal

Are Distress Deaths Necessary Collateral Damage of Covid-19 Response? The Experience of First Three Weeks of the Lockdown in India -Vikas Rawal, Karthik A Manickem and Vivek Rawal

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published Published on Apr 15, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 15, 2020

-Vikalp.ind.in

India implemented a national lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown was announced suddenly, and without a prior warning to give time to people to prepare for it. The suddenness with which lockdowns were implemented does not seem to have been part of any plan but a reflection of the lack of planning. On March 16, the Prime Minister asked people across the country to self-quarantine just for a day, on March 22. In the evening of March 22, he announced that some districts were being locked down. And then on the evening of March 23, he announced a complete, 21 day, country-wide lockdown starting midnight of March 24. As we write this, there is news that it is being extended for another two weeks, until April 30.

Response to Covid-19 necessitates social distancing, testing, quarantine or isolation as necessary means to slow down or control the spread. Even though complete lockdown of all economic activities as an effective means to achieve the above is arguable, this article focuses on an unfolding socio-economic crisis in the country as a vast majority of workers, who are employed in the informal economy, found themselves robbed of their means of livelihood with nothing to fall back on. As enterprises and establishments downed their shutters and the economic activity came to a grinding halt, small producers and workers across all sectors found themselves robbed of their livelihood, and in many cases, stranded far away from their families.

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