Praveen Chakravarty, political financial expert and head of the Information and Innovation cell of the Congress celebration, says India should develop a method of functioning with the idea of coronavirus around for a very long time. Excerpts from an e-mail interview:
It’s particular now that the lockdown would be extended by another 2 weeks however the Centre might enable some economic activity. Reports recommend that the federal government might partly open the least affected locations. How do you see this move?
We need to wait and see what the government is going to do exactly. As of now, there are reports indicating that the present type of extreme lockdown will be extended up until April 30 If the federal government is also at the same time considering a gradual “unlock” process, it is welcome. As the Chief Scientist of the WHO, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, has stated in an interview to The Hindu today, the disease is going to be with us for a long period of time and we require to begin preparing for life with the infection and can not be in a lockdown and await the virus to be gotten rid of totally, which will take a long time.
You have actually have actually talked about a ‘targeted lockdown’ instead of a total nation-wide lockdown. But Congress-ruled Punjab was the 2nd State to extend the lockdown on Friday. Exists a divide within the Congress?
A lockdown in itself can not be a strategy. It has to be accompanied by measures such as what the State of Rajasthan undertook in Bhilwara