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Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience
In this article, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 through screening and surveillance methods adopted in India, as well as the potential health system, social, political, and economic consequences. The research was done in a chronological manner, and data was collected between 30 January 2020 ti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7730885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33276678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238994 |
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author | Siddiqui, Azizah F. Wiederkehr, Manuel Rozanova, Liudmila Flahault, Antoine |
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description | In this article, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 through screening and surveillance methods adopted in India, as well as the potential health system, social, political, and economic consequences. The research was done in a chronological manner, and data was collected between 30 January 2020 till 12 June 2020. Initial containment measures, including point of entry screenings and testing protocols, appeared insufficient. However, testing capacity was gradually expanded after the commencement of a nation-wide lockdown. Modeling predictions have shown varying results on the emergence of cases depending on the infectiousness of asymptomatic individuals, with a peak predicted in mid-July having over two million cases. The country also faces risks of the economic plunge by losing approximately 4% of its gross domestic product, due to containment measures and reduction in goods importation. The low public health expenditure combined with a lack of infrastructure and low fiscal response implies several challenges to scale up the COVID-19 response and management. Therefore, an emergency preparedness and response plan is essential to integrate into the health system of India. |
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spelling | pubmed-77308852020-12-12 Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience Siddiqui, Azizah F. Wiederkehr, Manuel Rozanova, Liudmila Flahault, Antoine Int J Environ Res Public Health Case Report In this article, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 through screening and surveillance methods adopted in India, as well as the potential health system, social, political, and economic consequences. The research was done in a chronological manner, and data was collected between 30 January 2020 till 12 June 2020. Initial containment measures, including point of entry screenings and testing protocols, appeared insufficient. However, testing capacity was gradually expanded after the commencement of a nation-wide lockdown. Modeling predictions have shown varying results on the emergence of cases depending on the infectiousness of asymptomatic individuals, with a peak predicted in mid-July having over two million cases. The country also faces risks of the economic plunge by losing approximately 4% of its gross domestic product, due to containment measures and reduction in goods importation. The low public health expenditure combined with a lack of infrastructure and low fiscal response implies several challenges to scale up the COVID-19 response and management. Therefore, an emergency preparedness and response plan is essential to integrate into the health system of India. MDPI 2020-12-02 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7730885/ /pubmed/33276678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238994 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Siddiqui, Azizah F. Wiederkehr, Manuel Rozanova, Liudmila Flahault, Antoine Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title | Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title_full | Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title_fullStr | Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title_short | Situation of India in the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Initial Pandemic Experience |
title_sort | situation of india in the covid-19 pandemic: india’s initial pandemic experience |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7730885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33276678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238994 |
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