Comprehensive public health evaluation of lockdown as a non-pharmaceutical intervention on COVID-19 spread in India: national trends masking state-level variations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effect of four-phase national lockdown from March 25 to May 31 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in India and unmask the state-wise variations in terms of multiple public health metrics.

Design

Cohort study (daily time series of case counts).

Setting

Observational and population based.

Participants

Confirmed COVID-19 cases nationally and across 20 states that accounted for >99% of the current cumulative case counts in India until 31 May 2020.

Exposure

Lockdown (non-medical intervention).

Main outcomes and measures

We illustrate the masking of state-level trends and highlight the variations across states by presenting evaluative evidence on some aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak: case fatality rates, doubling times of c

SUBMITTER: Salvatore M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733201 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature