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Opinion | Three big questions after a week’s lockdown

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The shutdown seems more reactive than proactive and requires us to rethink several assumptions The 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters its second week on Tuesday.

The entire healthcare sector has been stretched beyond state-capacity from an emergency-lockdown imposed across states. Testing kits and private protective gear for the medical staff still remain acutely short in supply while images of stranded daily-wage, migrant workers walking on highways in the hope of returning to their homes, evoked an emotive imagery.

If one takes a step back to reason (and understand) both the cause and effect of India’s measure of announcing a blanket lockdown to counter the spread of coronavirus, three big unknowns still

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