The question is, did India really need such a drastic lockdown?

Corona virus: Did the Modi government make a mistake in assessing the situation?

The first case of corona virus in India was reported on January 30, 2020 in the southern state of Kerala.

On March 24, 52 days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a lockdown across India on just four hours' notice.

On the same day, March 24, a total of 564 cases of corona virus were reported across India, bringing the total number of deaths from corona virus to 10. That is 1.77% of all deaths.

Now let's talk about the third week of May. The total number of people infected with the corona virus in India is 108,923. According to government figures, 45,299 of them have recovered. The current death toll from the corona virus is 3,435, or 17.3% of the total.

On the other hand, there is a reality that the whole world is facing. That is unemployment. To go back to the abyss of poverty, to stay away from one's own. And the plight of poor workers in a country like India. During the lockdown, the workers went out on foot hungry and thirsty and got into accidents on the way.

An estimated 120 million people have lost their jobs in India so far due to the lockdown to control the corona virus.

Most of them are workers in the informal sector or on short-term contracts.

There are so many people who are not unemployed but who are sitting at home without pay and waiting for the offices to reopen because they did not get paid when the offices were closed.

The state of the country's economy is such that in the last two months, the government has had to announce a relief package of Rs 2 million crore.

To gauge the seriousness of the matter, let me tell you that this amount is 10% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

Code 19 is a disease that the whole world is dealing with.

The epidemic, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has spread to the world's developed and poor countries.

Be it Spain or Italy, the United States or the United Kingdom, Japan or South Korea, Canada or Brazil, the virus has taken its toll on every country and killed people.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the total number of corona virus cases in the world has exceeded 4.7 million, of which more than 300,000 have died.

Some countries in the world have implemented a complete lockdown to control it, while others have implemented a partial lockdown. That is, the lockdown has not been implemented in areas where there are few or no cases

According to Jyoti Ghosh, a professor of development economics at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Indian government delayed implementing the lockdown and, being a democracy, thought too little of its millions of poor workers.

Neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan have implemented the lockdown better than India, he said. He gave the workers ample time to return home and provided them with public transport. In India, on the other hand, poor workers were deprived of public transport for 45 days and were stranded wherever they were. Most hungry and thirsty. Then, under the pressure of the media, they started a special train service, but the fares were so expensive that even the middle class could not afford them.

The immediate implementation of the lockdown by the government had two purposes. The first is to stop the spread of the corona virus because the rate of its spread, known as RO, had to be controlled, and quarantine seemed to be the only cure, according to experience in other parts of the world and WHO guidelines. Was

Globally, it is called 'Flat Do Crow' and this process gives time to arrange beds, oxygen ventilators, PPE kits for patients in hospitals.

The government may also hope to develop a vaccine for the virus during the lockdown.

Aditi Fernandes, political editor of Newspaper Business Standard, is one of them. The lockdown could have been done better, she says. For example, in the north-eastern states like Sikkim and even Goa, when there was not a single case, why should they shut down industries? If the Mumbai airport had been closed earlier, the situation would not have been so bad.

However, as the lockdown period in India increased, so did the list of Corona victims.

According to medical experts, it is estimated that the number of corona cases in India will increase as India is improving testing facilities.

The government also says it has reduced the number of deaths from the corona virus. If she hadn't locked down, these things would have been a lot.

BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay says, "The Modi government had carried out a nationwide lockdown keeping in view all the consequences."

But according to some sources, in a meeting with the chief ministers of the states, Prime Minister Modi had hinted that the problem of poor workers would become so serious during the lockdown that the central government had no idea.

Top WHO medical experts say there are many viruses, including AIDS, for which no vaccine has yet been developed.

In addition, maintaining social distance is essential to keep the corona virus away from you.