NEW DELHI: Considering India’s success in eradicating small pox and polio in the past, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said India has "tremendous capacities" to control the spread of Covid-19. “India also eliminated polio, another silent killer, and did tremendous job on surveillance, on finding cases and vaccinating and doing all the things that needed to be done.
India has tremendous capacities," said Michael J Ryan, executive director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme. Ryan said “it is exceptionally important that countries like India lead the way and show the world what can be done and do as they have done before and show that aggressive, sustained public health action from community right through from the Head of State can have a