India, April 4 -- Four-year strategy aims to respond and mitigate the threat from coronavirus.

New Delhi: The Indian government has proposed a long-term Covid-19 combat strategy called the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP). With US$500 million corpus from the World Bank's Covid-19 Fast-Track Facility, the four-year, well-crafted strategy aims to respond and mitigate the threat from coronavirus and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness against the deadly Wuhan virus in India.

As per the SEP document, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW), along with other ministries, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) will be in-charge of the stakeholder engag...