Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has gripped the entire world, almost paralysing the human race in its entirety. The virus rapidly transmits via human-to-human medium resulting in a massive increase of patients with COVID-19. In order to curb the spread of the disease, an immediate action of complete lockdown was implemented across the globe. India with a population of over 1.3 billion was not an exception and took the challenge to execute phase-wise lockdown, unlock and partial lockdown activities. In this study, we intend to summarise these different phases that the Government of India (GoI) imposed to fight against SARS-CoV-2 so that it can act as a reference guideline to help controlling future waves of COVID-19 and similar pandemic situations in India.
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in more than 177 million people being affected and over 3 million deaths as reported in ‘worldometers.info’1
In this study we have reported the steps the Government of India (GoI) has taken in different lockdown and unlock phases and summarised our view in order to face battle against a similar future pandemic
The pandemic has given us a learning opportunity to battle against similar pandemics in the future
Summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in more than 177 million people being affected and over 3 million deaths as reported in ‘worldometers.info’. In the initial phases of the pandemic, neither any vaccine nor any therapeutic drugs were at the disposal of the human population, thereby making prevention the only way to curb the spread of the virus. Despite active research studies [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] in developing preventive vaccine which started quite soon, immediate action was necessary to stop the rapid spread of the virus via human-to-human transmission [8, 9], thereby making lockdown the only viable option around the globe; India being no exception. Study that shows the steps taken by the GoI to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India To bridge this gap, in this study we have reported the steps the GoI has taken in different lockdown and unlock phases and summarised our view in order to face battle against a similar future pandemic. The new variants are reported to be related to reinfections, either after being afflicted with COVID-19 or after vaccination [20]
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