'15-day' lockdown must to break deadly chain of transmission
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New Delhi, April 14 : As India witnesses an unprecedented surge in Covid caseloads, voices for a short-duration national lockdown or in severely-hit states/UTs grew louder on Wednesday and experts urged the Centre to immediately plan and execute a 15-day lockdown to break the chain of infection and manage the second wave of the pandemic.
The fact is that when India went into a 21-day national lockdown in March last year, the total number of active Covid cases was a mere over 500. The lockdown then failed to stop the surge as the first wave happened after that period and devastated businesses and normal life.