TIL Desk/Business/Mumbai/ States with good primary healthcare system have fared better in containing the spread of COVID-19, biotechnology industry veteran Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw said on Tuesday. The Executive Chairperson of bio-pharmaceuticals company, Biocon Ltd, also hit out at people not wearing face-masks in public places and said they don’t understand the gravity of the disease.
She called for a behavioural change in people with enhanced focus on discipline and cleanliness. Citing Karnataka and Kerala, Mazumdar-Shaw said they have managed the COVID-19 well as they have got a very good primary health care ecosystem. Kerala is a shining example of this. She also said that Thailand is able to contain any epidemic as it has an excellent primary healthcare structure.
People in countries like Japan, Vietnam and Thailand wear face-masks all the time in public places even before the COVID-19 pandemic. And then, they are naturally very clean people, disciplined. India will have to become a cleaner country , she told. What better time than now to focus much more on initiatives like Swachh Bharat and practices such as wearing masks and cleaning hands, she said.
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