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Sayan Das

Sayan Das is a medical graduate, currently pursuing his PhD in Public Health from Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
 

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Where is the Public Health in India’s Response to this Public Health Emergency?

The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30 2020, the same day India reported its first confirmed case. The country, so long oblivious to this developments-except for the southern state of Kerala which had a preparedness plan ready by mid-January-quickly sprang into action. Sc...