Will the lockdown restrictions in India extend until September?

Reports are now coming from New York hospitals, USA, reporting about other unheard serious effects like clotting of blood taking place in coronavirus patients, resulting in strokes and heart attacks.

There are also reports from many quarters about permanent partial damage of lungs to patients recovered from the coronavirus.

Some children in the United Kingdom with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to Covid-19

, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, U.K., said on Tuesday. NHS doctors have been warned to look out for a rare but dangerous reaction in children that may be linked to coronavirus infection. An urgent alert sent out to GPs said that intensive care departments in London and other parts of the UK have been treating severely sick children with unusual symptoms. This includes "multi-system inflammation" with flu-like symptoms.” Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.

So, coronavirus cannot be lightly taken and dismissed off as just another type of flu. It is much more serious.

What will happen if we relax the lock down in the middle of the crisis is now visible in Germany. Just like other European countries, Germany started cautious easing of its lock down measures. The outcome was not good. The first signs that transmission of the novel coronavirus has again picked up were visible in German official data, just as the country attempts a cautious easing of its lock down measures. Rising infection and mortality rates could pose a puzzle for authorities, as a population chafing at lock down measures is just beginning to enjoy some re found freedoms and an initial united front in politics and media crumbles. Merkel's pleas not to rush a step-by-step unwinding of lock down for fear of again worsening the virus' spread were dismissed or even blasted as authoritarian by some voices in media and the opposition.

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has now urged people not to lose patience with the lock down. Speaking outside No 10 for the first time since recovering from the virus, Mr Johnson said, lock down would not be relaxed too soon. Mr Johnson said he understood concerns from business owners who were impatient to end the lock down. But ending it too soon could lead to a second spike in cases and cause more deaths, "economic disaster" and restrictions being reintroduced, he said.”

When the coronavirus is capable of spreading again even if a single source of infection is left untreated, why does every country think of lifting the lock down in the midway, with thousands of live cases still existing in every country?

In the name of saving the economy, if we commit the mistake of lifting the lock down, the coronavirus may spread like wildfire and if community spread of virus take place, it will be impossible to control, resulting in large number of people getting seriously affected and large number of deaths.

If people are seriously affected in large numbers, it will also contribute to closing down of industries for want of employees and the resultant collapse of economy.

Of course, there is no easy solution to the problem and it has become a million dollars question for every world countries, whether to lift the lock down or continue with it.

We are stuck between the devil and the deep Sea.