“As per a government order, the statewide curfew will remain in effect till 7 am on May 31. Vaccinations, industrial activity, essential services and movement related to medical emergencies will be exempted from the restrictions.”
“Over the last seven days, Uttar Pradesh has recorded a drop of nearly 50 per cent in average daily infections compared to the previous week.”
“UP government officials say aggressive testing in villages led to the drastic drop in new cases.”
That’s the other thing that isn’t getting talked about much — the fact that India implemented a lockdown in response to its summer covid surge. How much of India’s turnaround is due to its locking down? No one likes lockdowns but the question has to be asked.
Back in May the Desert Review writer was focusing on the states of Delhi and Tamil Nadu to make his case for Ivermectin. Delhi’s data was crashing down while TN’s was trending upward. Then TN’s data turned around and crashed down too. What never got mentioned was that both states did hard lockdowns, and the timing of their cases falloff shows a correlation with the timing of their lockdowns. Again, no one likes lockdowns but should this just be ignored?
This site shows timing and extent of lockdowns using cellphone location data as a metric:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/india/tamil-nadu?view=social-distancing&tab=compare