NEW DELHI : An "exponential" ramping up of coronavirus testing is required to gauge the actual impact of the 21-day nation-wide lockdown, health experts said on Monday as India nears the final week of the unprecedented measure.
The experts agreed that the lockdown has helped in slowing down spread of the virus but insisted that the situation has not reached a plateau and that there was an urgent need to upgrade healthcare facilities to deal with the crisis.
Government officials involved in strategising India's approach to contain the pandemic said the overall social distancing model adopted by the country helped in checking spread of the virus compared to many developed countries including the US which reported 3,30,000 cases.