{"id":67066,"date":"2020-10-22T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67066"},"modified":"2020-10-22T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:52:12","slug":"precautions-during-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/precautions-during-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Precautions during festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What are the views of experts amid festive season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Committee warning <\/strong>&#8211; A government-appointed committee of doctors and scientists warned of a rapid surge of 26 lakh Coronavirus cases within a month if people show laxity in following COVID-19 protocol during the upcoming festive season and winter days.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kerala festive example<\/strong>&#8211; The epidemic curve of Kerala changed completely due to Onam festivities, when there were huge congregations of people convened in large numbers didn&#8217;t take precautions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>States highlight recoveries over risk-<\/strong> States, anxious to present a picture of near-normality to boost economic activity, highlight recoveries over risk, which may lead the people to lower their guard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>However,\u00a0there are five States (Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal)\u00a0and 3-4 Union Territories (UTs), where there is still a rising trend in daily cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the possible measures required to control the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> wave of COVID-19?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Commercialized health system-<\/strong> The Centre should launch policy reform to transform a predominantly commercialized health system into one providing universal coverage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Self-discipline &#8211;<\/strong> If precautions are not taken, the situation can go out of hand with sudden rise of Covid-19 cases. Besides, people need to be extra cautious during the festival season and practice social distancing.<\/li>\n<li>Action against those found without masks at all public places.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With loss of income and steep rise in health insurance premium, the cheapest protection against disease and financial loss is prevention.<\/li>\n<li>Government needs to make proper market arrangement for residents during the festival season and issue guidelines for social distancing and safety protocol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the views of experts amid festive season? Committee warning &#8211; A government-appointed committee of doctors and scientists warned of a rapid surge of 26 lakh Coronavirus cases within a month if people show laxity in following COVID-19 protocol during the upcoming festive season and winter days. Kerala festive example&#8211; The epidemic curve of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/precautions-during-festive-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Precautions during festive season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704794856},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}