50 Days of Lockdown: Measuring India’s Success in Arresting COVID-19

As India completes 50 days of lockdown, this report presents the findings of a data-driven enquiry into the extent to which the lockdown has achieved its health objectives and arrested the spread of COVID-19. The success is measured on four parameters: flattening the curve, reducing the growth rate of new cases, containing the spread, and improving healthcare capacity. The findings show that while the lockdown has flattened the curve to an extent, it has failed to reverse the trend or contain the disease. Significant changes in strategy would have to be adopted to arrest the spread of COVID-19