A complete lockdown for few weeks is needed in India to contain the spread of coronavirus as its deadly second wave shows no signs of receding, suggested America's top pandemic expert and the White House chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci. Speaking to Indian Express, Dr Fauci, prescribed a number of measures that the government should immediately adopt to flatten the curve. "Well, one of the things you really need to do, to the extent that you can, is shut down temporarily the country, I think is important. If we want to time out and go back to what I said: there is the immediate, the intermediate, and the long-range (measures to contain the virus)", Express quoted the top epidemiologist as saying.

A complete lockdown for few weeks is needed in India to contain the spread of coronavirus as its deadly second wave shows no signs of receding, suggested America's top pandemic expert and the White House chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci. Speaking to Indian Express, Dr Fauci, prescribed a number of measures that the government should immediately adopt to flatten the curve. "Well, one of the things you really need to do, to the extent that you can, is shut down temporarily the country, I think is important. If we want to time out and go back to what I said: there is the immediate, the intermediate, and the long-range (measures to contain the virus)", Express quoted the top epidemiologist as saying.