Managing Pandemics: India’s Responses to COVID-19

India has witnessed the emergence of the COVID-19 with a concourse of complex economic and public health challenges. The Government recognized the threat posed by COVID-19 and accordingly responded in a stratified fashion in tandem with the rapid progression of the pandemic across the States. The Indian response can be dissevered into three intersecting phases like controlling the borders to limit international travel, curb the spread of the disease within the country through primary and secondary contacts of travelers and nationwide lockdown to curtail local/ community transmission of the COVID-19. The Indian response to COVID-19 with panoptic inputs from citizens, civil society organizations, the private sector and the State and Central governments was exhaustive, all-embracing, strenuous and calibrated. The book, “Managing pandemics: India’s responses to COVID-19” portrays the Indian responses to curb and mitigate the pandemic in a robust and dynamic manner. This book is useful for academicians, policy makers, scholars, researchers, public health professionals and people involved in emergency preparedness and conceptions.