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As infection from Coronavirus count rose to 468 on Monday from 396 the day before, India has firmed up its resolve to check the virus from going into Stage 3 or community spread. Currently the virus is classified as Stage 2 –infection form person to person. In this regard, as many as 30 states and union territories have ordered total Lockdown from Wednesday. Most states had declared curfew under Section 144 CrPC to prohibit assembly of five or more people. This is seen as a determined and desperate measure to prevent the virus from taking on a community spread or Stage 3. Though the lockdown is considered as a preventive measure, analysis of medical infrastructure and other data of the top 10 affected countries shows that India lags far behind on the resources required to deal with a pandemic. Global hysteria has been fuelled also by the absence of key requirements such as masks and respiratory equipment, an issue that India could also face, according to the manufacturing segment. Also the other factor that could trigger spread in India about the prospect of it spreading into impoverished communities and the ability of resource-starved public health sectors to cope. While lockdown and curfew may address the issue of restriction of mass gathering so as to prevent the virus from spreading to community; the strategy alone may not be enough. It is not easy to contain the virus through lockdown as in China because in India, it is totally voluntary.Even in other countries, lockdown has not brought down the number of infections since the virus has already spread. The present ‘0’ statistic in the north east could be shattered once the virus manifests in those infected. Even before the name of the virus was known during December to January, health authorities in India were aware of the Coronavirus pandemic in China but had not taken immediate pre-emptive steps to unleash counter measures. The main problem is that by the time the initial few cases were reported, thousands of people had returned from various countries where the Coronovirus is on rampage. As the government at the Centre is on overdrive to combat the spread of the virus, the medical facilities could however prove inadequate in supplementing the effort. India has fewer hospital beds and doctors per 1,000 people than any of those countries. The scenario in Nagaland is also a matter of concern,even though the state government has been on track in issuing advisories to prevent the spread of the virus. A report by this newspaper had revealed that the district hospital in Dimapur has only ten beds for quarantine of patients and that too, a makeshift arrangement out of an existing isolation ward. Ventilators are also unavailable in the hospital, considered among the largest government hospitals. Medical teams, police, security forces and civil administration are working on war footing to screen, detect, isolate and prevent spread of the virus. Public cooperation is still needed especially on providing information about those who returned home from outside even as long back as February. This is a huge challenge before the state government and this, not medical facilities, could tilt the difference between success and failure. <\/p>\n
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