ROCKEFELLER SHOWS ROAD MAP TO MANAGE COVID IN INDIA

WASHINGTON: The prestigious Rockefeller Foundation on Thursday recommended a strategic roadmap to not only control Covid-19 in India, but also to manage future waves of the deadly pandemic which has killed over 280,000 people in the country.

The Rockefeller report, “The Road Ahead for Smart Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in India”, said to effectively protect the population from Covid-19, it said testing and tracing strategies should be further strengthened and contextualised through a cafeteria-style approach to testing; undertaking well-designed sero-surveys; setting regulatory pathways and quality checks on new testing technologies, and scaling genome sequencing efforts.→p4