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. 2021 Jan;68(1):142-145.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2020.12.005. Epub 2020 Dec 15.

Insight into the COVID-19 led slow-down in TB notifications in India

Javeed A Golandaj  1
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Insight into the COVID-19 led slow-down in TB notifications in India

Javeed A Golandaj. Indian J Tuberc. 2021 Jan.
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Keywords: COVID-19 epidemic; India; Lockdown; Tuberculosis.

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Conflicts of interest The author has none to declare.

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Fig. 1
Trends in daily mean number of COVID-19 cases and TB notifications, India, 2020. Note: Mean number of daily notified TB cases reported during January to August, 2020; ∗the COVID-19 response lockdown was imposed on March 25, 2020, hence, March month cases are classified as Mar-I for up to 24th March and Mar-II for 25-31 March; COVID-19, coronavirus disease; TB, tuberculosis. Source: TB notifications data extracted from the NI-KSHAY database (NTEP 2020); COVID-19 cases were extracted from COVID19- India API website (COVID19-India API 2020).
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: Trends in newly registered TB cases and percentage decrease during COVID-19 in India, January-August, 2019 and 2020. Note: Nationwide COVID-19 forced lockdown was imposed during March 25, 2020 to May 31, 2020; COVID-19, coronavirus disease; TB, tuberculosis. Source: Author's calculations based on TB notifications data extracted from the NI-KSHAY database (NTEP 2020).
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