{"id":59638,"date":"2020-05-16T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T10:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=59638"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T10:51:24","slug":"india-could-avoid-72-of-covid-19-cases-after-lockdown-by-closing-red-light-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/india-could-avoid-72-of-covid-19-cases-after-lockdown-by-closing-red-light-areas","title":{"rendered":"India could avoid 72% of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases after lockdown by closing red light areas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"59639\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/india-could-avoid-72-of-covid-19-cases-after-lockdown-by-closing-red-light-areas\/red-light-area\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?fit=292%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"292,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"red light area\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?fit=292%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?fit=292%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?resize=292%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?w=292&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/red-light-area.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>Academicians from Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have completed a study\u00a0\u2018Modelling the Effect of Continued Closure of Red-Light Areas on COVID-19 Transmission in India\u2019.\u00a0 The study finds that Indians are at a much lower risk of getting COVID-19 if red light areas are kept closed after the lockdown, until an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19 is developed. This intervention can help the Indian government significantly reduce the risk of citizens getting COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The findings of the research conducted by Yale School of Medicine\u00a0has been shared with the Government of India and various state governments along with a recommendation to continue closure of red-light areas (RLAs) beyond full nation-wide reopening as it can reduce the number of cases by 72% in a period of 45-days and delay the peak of COVID-19 cases by 17 days. The delay in the peak will provide the government more time and opportunities to plan and execute measures to protect public health and economy, as India moves in Lockdown 4.0. The study also states that there could be a 63% reduction in the number of deaths in the first 60 days after the lockdown ends, if red-light areas are kept closed.<\/p>\n<p>In India, there are close to 6,37,500 sex workers as per the National Aids Control Organization (NACO) and over 5 lakh customers visit the red-light areas on a daily basis. The study shows that if the red-light areas start operating, the disease will spread extremely quickly and infect a very high percentage of sex workers and customers. The high transmission rate is because social distancing is not possible during the sex act. The infected customers could spread the disease to lakhs of other citizens. Therefore, these red light areas have a combination of factors that can create a major hotspot. This hotspot can create a large percentage of the disease spread after lockdown ends. To protect citizens against this, the study recommends keeping red light areas closed indefinitely, during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights the impact of red-light areas across India and in five Indian cities which are currently in the red-zone and account for some of the largest red-light areas in the country with large numbers of sex workers. As per the study, if red-light areas are kept closed following the lifting of lockdown, there can be a delay in the peak of COVID-19 cases by up to 12 days in Mumbai, 17 days in New Delhi, 29 days in Pune, 30 days in Nagpur, and 36 days in Kolkata. Further, it can reduce COVID-19 cases by 21% in Mumbai, 27% in Pune, 31% in New Delhi, 56% in Nagpur, and 66% in Kolkata in a 45-day period. The report shows that closure of red-light areas can significantly reduce deaths by 63% in India, 28% in Mumbai, 38% in New Delhi, 43% in Pune, 61% in Nagpur and 66% in Kolkata in the first 60 days. These numbers are based on the prevalent reproduction number (R0) of 2.0. The numbers could vary depending on the Reproduction number (R0), which is constantly changing with time in different locations.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the report, co-author,\u00a0Dr. Jefferey Townsend, Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Medicine\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cAt the release of lockdown, there is a very high potential for the increase in the cases, and hence, a modulated approach is warranted. The actual scenario will depend on behavior of individuals and our model does not predict how individuals will behave. The purpose of our modelling exercises in not to predict what will happen in the future, but to understand the effect of the intervention on the future. Our study findings show that there is a strong effect of the red-light area closures, especially immediately following the lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other countries have also implemented similar interventions. In Australia, brothels and strip clubs are the only businesses that are delineated as indefinitely closed in the country\u2019s reopening plan. Germany and the Netherlands have also closed their brothels to protect citizens from COVID-19. Japan did not close down red light areas in-time and saw an \u201cexplosion\u201d in cases because of a red light area that left local hospitals \u201coverwhelmed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the COVID-19 situation in India, co-author of the report,\u00a0Dr. Sudhakar Nuti,\u00a0Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cThe Indian government\u2019s early measures to prevent the high growth in COVID-19 cases have flattened the curve in the country. The continued closure of red-light areas would build on the successes achieved by the government in lockdown. India gained around 40 days of delay in the peak through lockdown and can gain another 17 days of delay by keeping these places closed. Any effort in delaying the peak reduces the amount of stress on the medical system and potentially translates into lives saved. Preventing the potential surge in cases by red light areas reopening will protect gains made by the lockdown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The suggested intervention will also help potentially save the lives of thousands of sex workers across India. It also suggests measures to the government to address the health, safety, and well-being of sex workers in RLAs like reliefs as part of the government\u2019s financial relief scheme for the poor during COVID-19 and investment in reintegrating sex workers into other occupations given the closure.<\/p>\n<p>The study has been created to support the central government and specifically Indian states that have the largest number of sex workers &#8212; Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, West Bengal, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Kerala, which are some of the most affected states in India due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report has been co-authored by\u00a0Prof. Jeffery Townsend, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University,\u00a0Prof. Alison Galvani, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Modelling &amp; Analysis, Yale University, and\u00a0Dr. Sudhakar Nuti, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>NEWS Penned by : Natasha Srivastava<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academicians from Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have completed a study\u00a0\u2018Modelling the Effect of Continued Closure of Red-Light Areas on COVID-19 Transmission in India\u2019.\u00a0 The study finds that Indians are at a much lower risk of getting COVID-19 if red light areas are kept closed after the lockdown, until an effective treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[46973,46971,46535,46974,46970,46972],"class_list":["post-59638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-637500-sex-workers-as-per-the-national-aids-control-organization","tag-closing-red-light-areas","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-harvard-medical-school","tag-india-could-avoid-72-of-covid-19-cases-after-lockdown","tag-yale-school-of-medicine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India could avoid 72% of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases after lockdown by closing red light areas. - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Academicians from Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have completed a study\u00a0\u2018Modelling the Effect of Continued Closure of Red-Light Areas - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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