A lot of calls for Indian blockade nationwide compartment Covid-19 disaster is given, but experts say this is an unopened option.
Millions of Indians are living under limited measures imposed by localities to prevent Covid-19, when the central government rejects the national blockage calls from leading medical professionals.
The Indian Medicine Association earlier this month said "National blockade completely, planned and in advance" in 10-15 days will help the overloaded health system of this country have time to "restore
However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used to do this before and had to suffer a painful lesson.
When the first Covid-19 wave attacked India in March 2020, Prime Minister Modi announced a nationwide blockade only a few hours before officially executing, asking to close the border, prohibit federal travel,
The blockade command lasts nearly four months in 2020 that helped India control pandemic, but pay expensive prices to push the country's poorest and vulnerable to the scene without income and food, as well as
This time, Modi announced the national blockade would be the "final choice".
"We have to save the country from blockade. We have to do their best to avoid that," Modi said in the national speech on April 20.
The street in New Delhi was deserted by limited measures to prevent Covid-19 on May 16.
Since then, the leaders of 35 in 36 states and territories of India have applied their own limited measures, including the Night Night Order, partly closed or blockade a week.
Some experts say this approach is meaningful, when allowing local leaders to adjust limited measures according to the scale of the disease of the region and the needs of the people.
Since the pandemic began, India recorded nearly 25 million cases and more than 274,000 people died, South Asia's variable became the second largest translation area in the world.
This model indicates a 15-day national blockade order that can save about 100,000 people and prevent about 20 million people with viruses.
However, nationwide blockade also brings risks to India, especially for the poor.
With the national railway system suspended and closed inland borders, hundreds of people tried to walk thousands of kilometers home for weeks.
"The last year's experience has shown us to close the economy that causes a heavy effect on how the poorest component of society", India's Covid-19 response team in the magazine
Ajnesh Prasad, professor at the University of Royal Roads Business School, said only one part of certain people to be eligible to stay home and maintain the regulation of social ways.
"If we talk about urban poor, they cannot comply with regulations. They will tell you that compliance will be equivalent to starving," Prasad said.
Population density also works complicatedly complicated, when about 35% of urban people live in slums, where families do not have enough living space and lack of hygienic conditions, according to the World Bank (WB
In crowded slums, each family often lives in a small room and must use the bathroom with other families.
These make the blockade become not feasible and effective.
India's difficult economy makes the government difficult to impose the second national blockade order.
"Blockade often accompanies an economy and social expensive price. Sudden announcement also makes the majority of the country without preparing for income, food, security and safety. Meanwhile, even
India has a weaker financial system than many countries like the US or England.
A collapsed person in pain lost his relatives due to Covid-19 at Jammu cremation area on April 25.
In the beginning of April, when the number of cases began to rise sharply in New Delhi, many migrant workers rushed to home before any limited measures were given.
With multi-dang terrain and different population allocations, the Covid-19 situation in areas is very different.