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The Central government on Friday said that the national lockdown helped prevent 54,000 deaths and two million Covid-19 cases in India. In an interview with Somesh Jha, leading epidemiologist Jayaprakash Muliyil, former Principal, Christian Medical College, who is also a part of the research group assisting the National Task Force for Covid-19, discusses how the lockdown was of little help in containing the virus. He also talks about India already witnessing a community transmission and how herd immunity will be an inevitable consequence. Edited excerpts:
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