New Delhi, May 27: Professor Johan Giesecke of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, on Wednesday claimed that India will ruin its economy very quickly if it had a severe lockdown.
Claiming that a strict lockdown may disrupt India's economic growth, Giesecke during an interaction with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said: "In India, you will do more harm than good with strict lockdown measures. India will ruin its economy very quickly if it had a severe lockdown."
While calling for a soft lockdown approach in India, he suggested that India has to ease restrictions one by one. It may, however, take months to completely come out of lockdown, he said.
He further criticised countries across the globe for having no post-lockdown strategy.
Emphasising on the disease, the Swedish health expert said that coronavirus is spreading like a wildfire across the world. "It is a very mild disease. Ninety-nine per cent infected people will have very less or no symptoms," he added.
Meanwhile, Ashish Jha, Director Harvard Global Health Institute and a recognised public health official, in interaction with Gandhi, called for a need to go in for an 'aggressive' COVID-19 testing to create confidence among people.
"When the economy is opened post-lockdown, you have to create confidence. There is a need for aggressive testing strategy in high-risk areas," he said.
He asserted that COVID-19 is not the last pandemic in the world, adding that "We are entering the age of large pandemics".
Jha further said that countries like South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong have responded the best to COVID-19 pandemic, while Italy, Spain, the US and the UK have responded the worst.
A few days ago, the Gandhi scion had interacted with former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan and Nobel Prize Winner Abhijit Banerjee to discuss various issues related to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Our beautifull country Bharat is known for good people, but some criminals spoiling the name, better if crimes and rapes not prevented , bring Islamic law , sharia law, so that people will live peacefully. no rapes , even children walk freely any place
Can someone expect same sentence if his daughter / G daugher ( may god forbid) is victim
first prevent porn videos images circulating over social medias. Many family ladies also becoming victim for unwanted relationship also you can say their greedines making them to build illegal relationship and if this is the case what will be next generations life. We are focusing and highlighting only on medias but also need to concentrate our ladies activities. Prevent the rape by avoiding such activities.
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