Letter to the EditorInternational Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
Publication: Kerala’s first 100 days of facing the COVID-19 pandemic: a story of public health success
Int J Community Med Public Health. 2020;7(8):3305-3306.DOI10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20203063
Abstract
The southern state of India-Kerala, where the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were reported in the country has come to lime light with its pandemic containing strategies and minimum case fatality rate at hundred days. The state’s unparalleled containment and testing strategies was lauded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and referred to it as the “Kerala model”.
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- Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India Coordinator, Prevention of Epidemics and Infectious Diseases Cell, Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India UNESCO Bioethics Chair, Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India
- Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India