Corona Infection

Why 49 days lockdown is must in India?

The Corona is a real threat to humanity today. Every country is fighting against the evil. Most of the countries have already declared partial to complete lockdown in public sphere. The social distancing in public sphere removes all social contacts.

On 25th March 2020, Indian Prime Minister has announced a 21 days lockdown in entire country. Looking at the progress till date, there is decline in rate of infectives or the scenario may offer stability in coming days.

Moreover, the team of researchers have proposed a 49 days of lockdown extension to fight against Corona crisis. They have suggested some protocols on the basis of social distancing measures at different time and duration.

1. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
2. The Instutute of Mathematical Sciences – HBNI, Chennai, India

The extension may help to control and prevent the resurgence of Corona cases after 49 days. Though they have considered both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases together.

Also, the scenarios are best case scenarios where it is quite crucial to follow rapid and sustained social distancing. They used age distribution of Indian population along with social contact groups as a tool for computaion.

https://youtu.be/xoR5jh2H7SM

They tried to compare the rate of morbidity and mortality through the study. The holistic approach will definitely help to win over Corona or Covid-19.

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