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Fighting Covid Will Be a Long Haul but Normal Life Does Not Need to be Kept on Hold -Prem Shankar Jha

-TheWire.in

Before it is eradicated, the novel coronavirus can be tamed, but this will require the rapid implementation of an action plan that is humane, rational – and unafraid of the fiscal beancounters.

It’s too late. The COVID-19 horse has bolted and closing the barn doors now will not bring it back. Despite Narendra Modi’s all-India lockdown, the number of people testing positive for the virus has risen sharply during the past 10 days,  from 200 in three days to 200 in a single day.

Much of this increase is the result of more intensive testing following the discovery of COVID-19 “hotspots” such as the Tablighi Jamaat centre in Nizamuddin, where a large number of preachers (including at least 250 persons from abroad) had gathered in the first two weeks of March when even foreign travel restrictions had not yet been announced.

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