Mitigation and Management of COVID-19: Practices From India's States & Union Territories

Over the past several months, the world has been facing an unprecedented public health crisis in the form of Covid-19. States and union territories in India have been equal partners of the Central Government in managing the Covid-19 outbreak in the country. This document is a compendium of practices from states and union territories that details information about various initiatives implemented by states, districts, and cities in India for containing and managing the Covid-19 outbreak. The practices in the compendium have been dis-aggregated under six sections: (i) public health and clinical response (ii) governance mechanisms (iii) digital health (iv) integrated model (v) welfare of migrants and other vulnerable groups (vi) other practices. A summary of the relevant Government of India guidelines has been included for the aforementioned categories, wherever applicable.