Below we publish the Situation and the Peoples Health Movement response issued by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN) on March 24,  20201. Community Transmission of the coronavirus seems to be very possibly well underway and India is now in what was being referred to as stage 3. While there were clear weaknesses in containment during stage 2, notably delays in restrictions on air passengers entering India and weaknesses particularly in effective home quarantine measures, community transmission was almost inevitable.

THE people and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala had put up a united fight against the deadly Nipah virus when it gripped the state two years ago and earned laurels for their efforts. In a similar fashion, as per the directions of the LDF government, the state healthcare network has been working in full swing as soon as the first case of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was reported.

THE volunteers under the banner of the Delhi Solidarity Relief and Rehabilitation Committee have reached out to as many as 25-30,000 people through the relief work in the riot affected North-East Delhi. It has finished surveys in more than 350 households to assess the loss incurred due to riots. The preliminary analysis from the survey would hopefully provide us a correct picture of the material damage the violence has inflicted upon people. The survey was done with the help of more than 250 volunteers.

THE central government is conspiring to change the country into a theocratic state said T Veerabhadram, state secretary of CPI(M). The government is asking people to prove their citizenship, which is shameful, he said. For proving the citizenship even Aadhar card is also not accepted. In Siddipet district, under the chairmanship of district secretary, Amudala Mallareddy, a public meeting was organised on March 5.  Veeerabhadram, while speaking in the rally said that there is no benefit to the people out of NRC, CAA, and NPR.

ON February 16, 2020, more than a thousand volunteers of the DYFI in Maharashtra started a 125 km protest walk from Uran in Raigad district towards the state capital Mumbai, demanding employment and education opportunities and against the unconstitutional and communal CAA-NRC-NPR drive of the BJP central government.The Maharashtra police mounted inexplicably severe repression on all four days from February 16 to 19 to stop the youth march from moving towards Mumbai.  The DYFI had chosen BPCL Terminal at Uran as the starting point and Chaityabhoomi, Mumbai, the final resting place of Dr B R