India’s Stand on Covid-19
Written by: Yashika Birla
Edited by: Ritika Rana
"Pandemic is not a word to be used lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death." And this is what Indian stand on coronavirus is.
On 11 March 2020, WHO declared Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic and reiterated the call for countries to take immediate actions and scale up the response to treat, detect and reduce transmission to save people’s lives. Following the same, Our Prime Minister declared the official lockdown for saving the country from its harmful consequences. In the early days, when cases were less and there was an official lockdown. All of us stayed inside our homes due to the fear of Covid-19 and now when the situation is even worse but just because of the downfall of the economy there's no official lockdown, we aren't following social distancing. Do we need an official declaration always to save our own lives?
The WHO Country Office for India has been working closely with the Government of India to step-up preparedness and response measures for COVID-19, including surveillance and contact tracing, laboratory testing, risk communications and community engagement, hospital preparedness, infection prevention and control, and implementation of containment plan at all three levels of the health system – national, state and district. But all these steps and hard working efforts of officials are going in vain because we ourselves aren't being careful. We are forgetting day by day that situation is getting worse now as India has more than 30 lakh cases of coronavirus. So, we need to practice more social distancing than ever before and not roam here and there pointlessly just because we don't have any governmental restrictions on us.
According to a report published by Johns Hopkins University In just three weeks, India went from the world's sixth-worst affected country by the coronavirus to the third. How strongly our doctors are working to save Indian residents from this pandemic and what are we giving in return? our careless behaviour.
India has tallied 878,254 infections and more than 23,174 deaths, with cases doubling every three weeks. On Sunday, the country reported its highest single-day tally of more than 28,600 cases. If we'll keep on behaving this way, that day is not far when every single one of us would be facing the same. Not only this, but India is also contributing to the world for finding a vaccine for the same. India has seven vaccines in various stages of the clinical trial, including one by Bharat Biotech that the Indian Council on Medical Research pledged would finish human trials by August. Any time you go out and are around other people, you’re exponentially increasing the contact you have with the world and the possibility of transmitting the virus. As citizens of India, at present, our first duty is to practice social distancing to save our lives which will automatically lead to the betterment of the country. As safe citizens will lead to safe India.
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