Startup Community proposes to Impose a lock down across major cities


While the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the nation, many services and businesses have been closed or cancelled. 126 individuals tested the Covid-19 virus positively in India currently which has increased drastically when once the death toll in the nation was three individuals. For safety and precaution measures, presently 54,000 people around the country are under group monitoring by health staff.

Bunch of entrepreneurs and investors conducted a petition and with analysing data, studies found that lock-down at the very moment instead of waiting for 30 days, could assumably save five times more lives in just about 90 days span. The study underscored that countries that responded early and strongly, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan, were able to clamp down statistics and brought down cases of Covid-19 relatively to those who hesitated, such as Iran, Italy, France, and the United States.

Apparently, in 1918 Flu, Denver experienced a second peak despite the gradual easing of controls. Realising the importance of safety, leaders proposed another scheduled lock-down in the month of May to ensure not to see a second peak after the original constraints having been removed.

So now, India's start-up sector has prompted numerous government departments, including the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Health, as well as state governments, to lock up major cities for two-three weeks in order to save lives of individuals important to the country amidst the pandemic. Start-ups such as Urban Company, Bounce, Udhyam Learning Foundation, Cred, Snapdeal, MyGate, Vokal, Unacademy, 1MG, among others, as well as investors including Matrix Partners, Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, have supported the holdings of the research and data analysis.

The start-ups have pointed out that the lock-up will have economic and social consequences, and measures need to be taken to plan accordingly, including the preservation of the supply chain for necessities such as food, drugs, and the establishment of a government war room as well as the extension of the research system and rapid research power.