Has Covid-19 made a unified response to a national crisis the new normal?

While the Centre and the states have been nimble in launching joint action plans to contain the disease, there is sceptism that this is just a one-off

The 31st of December is usually reserved for a quiet celebration in many government offices in Delhi. It was going as per plan at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), an often easy-to-miss office of the ministry of health, located at Sham Nath Marg in North Delhi. It gets overlooked since it is not a hospital though it takes the leading role in investigating disease outbreaks all over the country.

“We got an update from the WHO China Country Office about 41 deaths from a new disease. Normally, such a small number from a country like China would not