Coronavirus lockdown: Isolation may cut peak numbers by 89%, says ICMR

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for complete lockdown for 21 days amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, scientists at Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) said that the next three weeks are crucial for India to combat the spread of the virus.

ICMR said that social distancing is very important to fight against coronavirus.

According to a study by ICMR using a simple mathematical model of infectious disease transmission has revealed that that home quarantine of symptomatic can reduce the overall expected number of cases by 62 per cent and the peak number of cases by 89 per cent.

PM Modi also stressed