"Lockdown slowed down the transmission a bit in some parts of India but in most big cities, the transmission is happening quickly. Now if you say there is no community transmission that will be a falsehood." - epidemiologist who is a part of the National Task Force for #COVID19. 
"On the one hand you call it a lockdown and on the other, you encourage crowding. Consequently, the lockdown created havoc but it didn’t stop people and did not stop the disease from spreading...We locked people away from their homes and this caused more problems"
"Kerala did exemplary work and managed to contain it but it’s not an easy task. In terms of controlling the viral diseases, Kerala’s efforts will always be described as a miraculous success...With the rest of India, the problem was that containment was not fast."
Muliyil spoke to me over a month ago in which he had spoken in detail about the 'herd immunity'. Now he says that herd immunity cannot be a policy plan but will be an "inevitable consequence."
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