Open AccessDrawing inference from nationwide lockdown as a response towards novel Cornavirus-19 (CoVID-19) epidemic in India
Author(s) -
Dinesh Kumar,
Sunil Kumar Raina,
Ramesh Chand Chauhan,
Pankaj Kumar,
Saurabh Sharma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_807_20
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , government (linguistics) , demography , wilcoxon signed rank test , phase (matter) , doubling time , statistics , mann–whitney u test , disease , mathematics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , in vitro , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry , sociology
Lockdown effectively can only result in relative freezing of populations that is expected to slow down the disease spread rather than zeroing it. Flattening of epidemic curve Current analysis was carried out to observe a pattern in the rise of CoVID-19 cases along with concurrent announcements of strategies to control the spread of disease.