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Modi Orders 3-Week Total Lockdown for All 1.3 Billion Indians
With four hours notice, Indias prime minister announced that no one could leave their homes for 21 days the most severe step taken anywhere in the war against the coronavirus.
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There will be a total ban of coming out of your homes, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced on television Tuesday night, giving Indians less than four hours notice before the order took effect at 12:01 a.m.
Every state, every district, every lane, every village will be under lockdown, Mr. Modi said.
The breadth and depth of such a challenge is staggering in a country where hundreds of millions of citizens are destitute and countless millions live in packed urban areas with poor sanitation and weak public health care.
Though Indias number of reported coronavirus infections remains relatively low around 500 the fear is that, should the virus hit as it has in the United States, Europe or China, the consequences would lead to a disaster far bigger than anywhere else.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)No provisions for getting food announced?
Seems to me the order should have included the "steps" to be taken.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Even China didnt go that far. Talk about crippling the world economy. This will do it (if Modi can actually enforce his decree, which I doubt). India is horribly difficult to govern.
-Laelth