HYDERABAD : Lockdown would only help in slowing down the spread of COVID-19, but it wasnot a permanent solution to tackle the pandemic, Telangana Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao said on Monday.
Rao, son of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, also said no country in the world had solved the problem through lockdown. "...some friends are asking for imposing lockdown.
Lockdown is not a solution for this. By imposing lockdown, we may be able to slow this down to some extent, except causing some inconvenience to people, it is not a permanent solution," he said.
Living with the virus was inevitable till development of a medicine or a vaccine for COVID-19 and life should move on by taking precautions, Rama Rao, popularly known as.