You are going to read a text. Some sentences are missing from the text. Choose from the list (A-C) the most appropriate sentences to complete the text. There is also an extra sentence that you do not need to use.

Lockdowns are clearly not the solution. 1) ________ The bigger worry for India is the manifestation of Covid cases across the Hindi heartland now with the lockdown option no longer feasible. Public health and testing facilities have to decentralise further if the north Indian surge has to be controlled. 2) __________ With daytime temperatures bound to fall now, droplet transmission could intensify. 

A. Alternatively, messaging on masks and physical distancing must be amplified.

B. Karnataka and Kerala which were thought to be performing well early on are cautionary tales in this epidemic.

C. Thiruvananthapuram has been under lockdown for over two weeks but case counts show no sign of dipping.