By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
The Karnataka Government has announced the extension of the ongoing, nearly month-long lockdown for a further two weeks. Yes, it is the same kind of lockdown in every way that we have been having over the last four weeks. This suggests that no one in the Government think tanks have really applied their minds, over the past one month, on how to make lockdowns effective in controlling the pandemic while at the same time controlling to some extant the joblessness and consequent hunger of those standing without work or wages in the large unorganised sector which constitutes almost half our population.
