NEW DELHI: The world is entering an age of pandemics, and lockdowns cannot be long-term solutions to contain the spread of diseases, two public health experts told former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in an online conversation on Wednesday.
Speaking about the fallout of the spread of coronavirus pandemic globally, Ashish Jha, Dean of Brown University School of Public Health, professor of Global Health, T.H.
Chan School of Public Health and director, Harvard Global Health, and Johan Giesecke, a Swedish physician and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, underlined the need for aggressive, customised testing strategy, robust health systems and policy to tackle pandemics.