CNN: India Coronavirus: The Ways Indian States Handled Coronavirus Shows Where You Live Matters

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/asia/india-coronavirus-kerala-flatten-curve-intl-…

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Kim Fortun

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May 20, 2020 - 12:07pm

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"We understood that for any contagious virus, the first thing we have to do is contact tracing and to break the chain," she said. "If we trace the contact properly, we can isolate the person from others and we can break the chain and flatten the curve of the epidemic. This is the same thing we applied here."

"Kerala acted from the beginning ... and has not lowered its guard yet," said Rajeev Sadanandan, Kerala's former health secretary and the chief executive of non-profit Health Systems Transformation Platform. "No other Indian state did anything remotely comparable."

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Anonymous, "CNN: India Coronavirus: The Ways Indian States Handled Coronavirus Shows Where You Live Matters", contributed by Kim Fortun, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 20 May 2020, accessed 30 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/cnn-india-coronavirus-ways-indian-states-handled-coronavirus-shows-where-you-live-matters

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