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The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries

Concern for public health has been growing with the increasing volume of cases of COVID-19 in India. To combat this pandemic, India has implemented nationwide lockdowns, and unlocking phases continue with certain restrictions in different parts of the country. The lockdown has required people to ado...

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Autores principales: Panneer, Sigamani, Kantamaneni, Komali, Akkayasamy, Vigneshwaran Subbiah, Susairaj, A. Xavier, Panda, Prasant Kumar, Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel, Rice, Louis, Liyanage, Champika, Pushparaj, Robert Ramesh Babu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010610
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author Panneer, Sigamani
Kantamaneni, Komali
Akkayasamy, Vigneshwaran Subbiah
Susairaj, A. Xavier
Panda, Prasant Kumar
Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel
Rice, Louis
Liyanage, Champika
Pushparaj, Robert Ramesh Babu
author_facet Panneer, Sigamani
Kantamaneni, Komali
Akkayasamy, Vigneshwaran Subbiah
Susairaj, A. Xavier
Panda, Prasant Kumar
Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel
Rice, Louis
Liyanage, Champika
Pushparaj, Robert Ramesh Babu
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description Concern for public health has been growing with the increasing volume of cases of COVID-19 in India. To combat this pandemic, India has implemented nationwide lockdowns, and unlocking phases continue with certain restrictions in different parts of the country. The lockdown has required people to adopt social-distance measures to minimize contacts in order to reduce the risks of additional infection. Nevertheless, the lockdown has already impacted economic activities and other dimensions of the health of individuals and society. Although many countries have helped their people through advanced welfare protection networks and numerous support aids, several emerging economies face specific difficulties to adapt to the pandemic due to vulnerable communities and scarce resources. However, certain lower-income countries need more rigorous analysis to implement more effective strategies to combat COVID-19. Accordingly, the current systematic review addresses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in India in relation to health and the economy. This work also provides further information on health inequalities, eco-nomic and social disparities in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns and also contributes pragmatic suggestions for overcoming these challenges. These observations will be useful to the relevant local and national officials for improving and adopting novel strategies to face lockdown challenges
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spelling pubmed-87446312022-01-11 The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries Panneer, Sigamani Kantamaneni, Komali Akkayasamy, Vigneshwaran Subbiah Susairaj, A. Xavier Panda, Prasant Kumar Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel Rice, Louis Liyanage, Champika Pushparaj, Robert Ramesh Babu Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Concern for public health has been growing with the increasing volume of cases of COVID-19 in India. To combat this pandemic, India has implemented nationwide lockdowns, and unlocking phases continue with certain restrictions in different parts of the country. The lockdown has required people to adopt social-distance measures to minimize contacts in order to reduce the risks of additional infection. Nevertheless, the lockdown has already impacted economic activities and other dimensions of the health of individuals and society. Although many countries have helped their people through advanced welfare protection networks and numerous support aids, several emerging economies face specific difficulties to adapt to the pandemic due to vulnerable communities and scarce resources. However, certain lower-income countries need more rigorous analysis to implement more effective strategies to combat COVID-19. Accordingly, the current systematic review addresses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in India in relation to health and the economy. This work also provides further information on health inequalities, eco-nomic and social disparities in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns and also contributes pragmatic suggestions for overcoming these challenges. These observations will be useful to the relevant local and national officials for improving and adopting novel strategies to face lockdown challenges MDPI 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8744631/ /pubmed/35010863 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010610 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Panneer, Sigamani
Kantamaneni, Komali
Akkayasamy, Vigneshwaran Subbiah
Susairaj, A. Xavier
Panda, Prasant Kumar
Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel
Rice, Louis
Liyanage, Champika
Pushparaj, Robert Ramesh Babu
The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title_full The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title_fullStr The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title_full_unstemmed The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title_short The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries
title_sort great lockdown in the wake of covid-19 and its implications: lessons for low and middle-income countries
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010610
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