![]() Some experts, including Anthony S Fauci, the top US infectious disease doctor, say a temporary shut down is important. The most immediately effective way to break the chain of transmission is to keep people far enough apart that the virus can’t jump from one to another. Reasoned lockdowns Although policy makers have signaled they are ready to take steps to support growth, economists say a failure to flatten the virus curve could exert pressure on monetary and fiscal policies at a time when most of the conventional space available has already been used. A lack of adequate vaccine doses has only added to the chaos. In the past month however, the collapsing health infrastructure and mounting death toll has revealed the extent the crisis. In April, a survey of the confederation’s members showed they were against lockdowns and wanted swift vaccination. ![]() This represents a shift from India’s top business leaders. India’s richest banker Uday Kotak, who heads the Confederation of Indian Industry, urged the government to deploy the military to help care for patients and to take the “strongest national steps including curtailing economic activity to reduce suffering.” “We must heed expert advice on this subject - from India and abroad,” he said. If you have huge swaths of your population getting sick, that’s not good for your population or your economy.” “What’s happening now is a health and an economic disaster. “One of the problems is this false narrative that it’s either a full lockdown, which equates to economic disaster, or no lockdown, which is a public health disaster,” said Catherine Blish, an infectious disease specialist and global health expert at Stanford Medicine in California. While Modi is keen to avoid that criticism again, particularly after his Bharatiya Janata Party failed to win an election in West Bengal when votes were counted Sunday, even states run by his party are ignoring his advice. The debate has been complicated by Modi’s move last year to impose a nationwide lockdown without warning, spurring a humanitarian crisis as migrant workers fled on foot to rural areas. When you hear such things, you wonder if going to the US is really worth it," he added.NEW DELHI: Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on states to only consider lockdowns “as the last option.” Now everyone from his political allies to top business leaders and USPresident Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser see them as the only way to stem the world’s worst virus outbreak. "We are told that her friends in the US were left struggling to find her as her emergency contact - her friend Shreyas Reddy - himself was injured with three bullet wounds. The US is getting very unsafe," said a distraught Vikas, claiming the incident has left many questioning their great American dream. She was out to buy groceries, and this happened. "All our mutual friends in the US are extremely disturbed. Little did anybody then know, that was the last time they were seeing her. She never tolerated anything wrong happening to anybody around her," Vikas said, while recalling her last trip to the city in 2022 for her brother's wedding. So much so that we had named her 'rowdy'. ![]() It's even more shocking because Aishwarya was a very brave girl. "None of us in our wildest dreams thought she'd go away like this. ![]() KTR even responded saying, "We will take care brother please follow up" on it, on Monday. His tweet to the Telangana CMO and minister KT Rama Rao, to facilitate a quick transfer of her body back to Hyderabad, caught the attention of many.
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