Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami clarified in a tweet the morning of June 12 that his government had no strategies of heightening a lockdown in Chennai or neighbouring districts. The State federal government later informed the Madras High Court that it had no intention of imposing lockdown even in parts of Chennai city.
The categorical statement is welcome due to the fact that it scotches rumours of an intense lockdown in Chennai through WhatsApp messages that began a wave of speculation on social networks, not to discuss panic. It is also worthwhile of appreciation because it is the best step in the scenarios. Intensifying a lockdown would serve no purpose now, and our memory of the panic buying that precedes an intense lockdown and the development of subsequent clusters of positive individuals is recent, and rather raw.
A lockdown has particular restricted, albeit crucial function– it slows down the transmission in order to help health systems gear up to fulfill the upcoming needs on the health care facilities. Worldwide experience does reveal that a lockdown does not spell completion of the epidemic, it only holds off the inescapable– a rise in the variety of cases. Countries that have actually managed to slip into a phase where lockdowns have been raised and totally free motion permitted, such as Italy or China, have done so after they experienced a high variety of cases and shar