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Primary Care is the essential foundation in covid 19 response globally because it can
meet more than 80% of people’s health needs. It plays a significant role in gatekeeping and clinical responses in identifying and triaging potential COVID-19 cases, ensuring early diagnosis, helping vulnerable people cope with their anxiety, and reducing the hospital service demand. During the
initial pandemic Phase, the World Health Organization emphasized the role of Primary Care and provided interim guidance on the role of Primary Care in the covid 19 response. This guiding document identified Six principles that guided the roles of primary care in this pandemic. These six principles are maintaining delivery of essential health services; Identifying and managing potential cases; Avert the risk of transmission of infection to contacts and healthcare workers; Enhance existing surveillance such as for influenza-like illness (ILI) and Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI); Streng
India Covid cases top 20 million, figure could be 15 times higher , says expert
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04/05/2021 - 16:05 Scores died over the weekend in Indian hospitals hit by shortages that have forced clinics in the capital to send urgent appeals for help on social media TAUSEEF MUSTAFA AFP 5 min India has officially recorded more than 20 million coronavirus cases, with 3,446 new deaths on Tuesday taking the toll over 220,000. But experts say the country s unreliable death registration system and underreporting mean the real figures are much higher. Advertising
India has reported more than 300,000 new infections every day for nearly a fortnight.
But scientists and epidemiological modellers say the official numbers do not come even close to reality.
By hiding the real number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, some Indian states are disempowering people
Three experts explain the consequences of data gaps for India’s pandemic response. On April 25, daily new Covid-19 cases rose to about 350,000 in India. | Narinder Nanu / AFP
Daily new Covid-19 cases in India rose to over
3,50,000 on April 25, a day which saw 2,808 deaths. These are just the numbers we know. The numbers we do not know could be a lot more. We do not know how many more cases there could potentially be because of no testing, or because test results are not revealed. More tricky is assessing the number of Covid-19 deaths.