India can learn from China’s experience fighting Covid-19, says top US adviser Anthony Fauci
- Fauci tells Indian newspaper that building temporary hospitals and lockdowns helped China stop the disease spreading
- India is currently the world’s worst affected country, with 400,000 new cases recorded on Saturday
India could learn from China’s disease control playbook in fighting its Covid-19 surge, according to US presidential medical adviser Anthony Fauci.
Fauci offered advice on how to tackle the “very difficult and desperate situation”, during an interview with The Indian Express published on Saturday.
Fauci said building makeshift hospitals, like those used in Wuhan last year when the central Chinese city became the first epicentre of the pandemic, could be an emergency stopgap measure.
“What the Chinese did when they had a crisis, you might recall, literally, within a few days they built these emergency units that served as hospitals,” he said.
“It just seems to me, what I was viewing on television [in India], what people were looking for a desperate need for hospital care,” said Fauci, who is also head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
