Strategic shift: On house isolation of moderate coronavirus cases

On March 28, just 130 districts of India’s 736 had reported COVID-19 cases. The Health Ministry’s technique then, after the national lockdown, was to guarantee State supervision of those who manifested symptoms– in addition to their high-risk contacts– and who had a travel history. Suspected high-risk contacts or those most likely to have been exposed to the infection went through varying degrees of State quarantine. Those not showing signs of the disease or ‘ moderate’ manifestations, were put in care centres and those noticeably sicker, in healthcare facilities. The concept constantly was that if the ill and their contacts were segregated from the neighborhood long enough, the transmission chain would be broken and the illness extinguished. As April ends, the number of affected districts stands at 401 and confirmed cases have r