TNN | Mar 29, 2020, 01: 46 IST
NEW DELHI: The assessment conveyed by experts to the government was urgent: The number of Covid-19 patients would increase as people returning to India carrying the infection would come into contact with others and this required an immediate response.
Senior officials dealing with public health were unanimous in their opinion that a lockdown was the need of the hour. People needed to be immobilised so that those who developed symptoms would not become spreaders on a scale that would send the number of Covid-19 patients — and mortalities — soaring.
The three-week lockdo