Covid-19: More testing needed, India not out of woods, say experts

“The lockdown should only be lifted when the number of cases start dropping, which is not happening right now,” said Arvind Kumar

Current Affairs : An “exponential” increase of coronavirus testing is required to check the genuine effect of the 21-day across the nation lockdown, wellbeing specialists said on Monday as India approaches the last seven day stretch of the uncommon measure.

The specialists concurred that the lockdown has helped in hindering spread of the infection however demanded that the circumstance has not arrived at a level and that there was a critical need to update medicinal services offices to manage the emergency.

Government authorities engaged with strategising India’s way to deal with contain the pandemic said the general social separating model received by the nation helped in checking spread of the infection contrasted with many created nations including the US which detailed 3,30,000 cases.

India went under an across the nation lockdown from 12 PM of March 24 to battle the pandemic.

In light of the lockdown and our endeavors to advance social removing, cases were being accounted for however there was no sharp ascent, says Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal.

Be that as it may, specialists said India is as yet not free and clear and enormous scope testing alone can make the general picture understood.

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