Getting ready for exit: On raising the lockdown

As the world watches, India should plan its strategy for a calibrated exit, potentially in a week, from the most aggressive lockdown anywhere to contain the novel coronavirus The government faces the difficulty of normalising some level of life and oiling the wheels of the economy, without triggering a rise in cases that might follow wrong actions. It is completely welcome that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought the views of the States en route forward beyond the 21- day lockdown, and mandated his Ministers to come up with a set of concern actions under an organisation connection plan. The strategy will need to take into account the exodus of migrant labour from cities to their home towns or to camps set up along inter-State passages. Considered that this is harvest season, cessation of activity due to labour problems can activate food deficits and high rates. On the medical front, States are keeping track of those under seclusion or in quarantine and straining to trace the contacts of those who attended the Nizamuddin parish, much of whom are