NEW DELHI: Lacking adequate numbers of testing kits, India is banking on its mammoth health network to avoid a staggering rise in Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases. Unless India gets the outbreak under control, the virus may spread exponentially, threatening the world. That means that how India deals with the crisis is crucial towards ending the pandemic.
India faces shortages of testing kits - just like so many other countries - in the battle with the new coronavirus. That's why it has called on its key asset - people power - to help turn the tide.
"There were concerns over not enough testing in India, but it has been done in an appropriate manner. It is clear that we haven’t missed major areas of transmissions and hotspots are being controlled,” said Giridhar R Babu, head of life course epidemiology at the Public Health Foundation of India. Countries like South Korea isolated infected people via widespread testing. In contrast, surveillance-guided testing helped India control infections and is instructive to countries facing kit shortages.
On the front line are 3.5 million Accredited Social Health Activists and Anganwadi workers, drawn from local and rural communities who form a key element of India’s primary and community health programmes.
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