Publications by authors named "Prakash Govindasamy"
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the majority of the identified COVID-19 patients in Chennai, a southern metropolitan city of India, presented as asymptomatic or with mild clinical illness. Providing facility-based care for these patients was not feasible in an overburdened health system. Thus, providing home-based clinical care for patients who were asymptomatic or with mild clinical illnesses was a viable solution.
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- The study examines public health strategies employed in Chennai, India, to manage COVID-19 from March to October 2020, focusing on surveillance, testing, contact tracing, and quarantine efforts.
- Chennai experienced a peak incidence of COVID-19 cases among older adults, with significant fluctuations in case numbers and a total of 3543 deaths reported by October 2020.
- The effective reproduction number (R) decreased from 4.2 in March to below one in July, suggesting that the implemented strategies were effective in reducing the spread of the virus in a densely populated setting.