India and the Coronvirus — How ready is India

My report on India’s public health system’s capacity to cope with the Coronavirus outbreak

A 3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. Caption and photo: niaid/Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Public health experts caution that should the #HighRiskCovid19 disease due to the  #coronavirus outbreak snowball in India, the country’s weak public health infrastructure may not be able to cope. The southern states may still withstand the onslaught of demands but the northern states, and their relatively poorer amenities, will likely struggle.

“The coronavirus disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – will impact the healthcare system of India in an unprecedented manner,” Joe Thomas, a professor of health, sustainable and inclusive development at MITWorld Peace University, Pune, said. “Though the epidemic is in its preliminary stages in India, it appears that the government’s and the community’s readiness are still not adequate.”

While the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has initiated several steps to contain the outbreak, “COVID-19 demands a genuinely multi-sectoral approach and such a response is yet to be in place,” Thomas, who is visiting faculty of the school of health sciences and social work at the University of Portsmouth, UK, said.

Read more:  https://science.thewire.in/health/no-really-how-ready-is-india-for-the-new-coronavirus-outbreak/

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Caption This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.