The crisis of COVID-19 has led to a global surge in surveillance activities. The World Health Organization, in its guideline for “Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)” rolled out implementable steps for nations to track and trace coronavirus infections.1 In order to figure out mechanisms for contact tracing and to prevent the infections… Continue reading COVID-19 – A Reckoning: Rethinking Surveillance in Times of Crisis
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COVID-19 – A Reckoning: Rethinking Surveillance in Times of Crisis
Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context
Introduction “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down or our heads from a blue sky.” – Albert Camus (The Plague, 1948) The world today is grappling with global COVID-19 public health emergency and its social, economic and… Continue reading Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context

