Day Seventeen
Entering week 3 of the lockdown. Mumbai Municipal Corporation has made masks compulsory in public spaces. Even inside offices and cars. Not wearing one is a punishable offence. And a very exciting news that IIT-B is planning to develop a nasal gel to capture and inactivate the virus. New Scientist is taking about 3 exit strategies to end the lockdown: 1) Hold : Maintain the lockdown until the rate of new infections falls close to zero, then pivot to an aggressive containment strategy, with isolation of new cases and contact tracing. 2) Build : Lock down for long enough to build healthcare capacity for the second wave. That means increasing intensive care beds and staff, but working out how much we need is difficult. 3) S hield : End the lockdown abruptly while extensively protecting those who are likely to be most vulnerable to the virus. Meanwhile the lockdown ended in Wuhan , the origin of the virus, after 76 days. While no country has been unsc...