Meghalaya has introduced a ‘Behaviour Change Model for living with COVID-19’. The State health department has decided to consider all residents as ‘Catergory A’ patients or asymptomatic positive till tests are conducted in order to prevent community transmission.
Strategy: The assumption is that every person could be an asymptomatic, mobile carrier of the COVID-19 virus, with a probability of transmitting the virus to others unknowingly. By assuming that everybody is an asymptomatic person, people will be more cautious and responsible for their actions and thus, help in reducing the risk of community transmission
The state thinks that this was the best way to prevent the threat of community transmission with thousands of migrants returning to the state from different zones.
It is based on a four-pronged plan that suggests not just testing everyone who enters the state and thereafter isolating them, but a psychological model which stresses on behavioural change and training modules.
Source: Indian Express and Deccan Herald
