India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has extended the country’s lockdown until May. The nationwide coronavirus lockdown, which first went into effect on March 24 for 21 days, will now l…
lockdown, which first went into effect on March 24 for 21 days, will now last until May 3. The extension comes as India records 339 deaths and grapples with close to 10,000 cases of COVID-19; however, it is believed the case figures could be higher, and may not be reflective of the actual numbers due to inaccessibility of testing in some areas.
Modi said: “My request to all my countrymen is that coronavirus will not be allowed to spread across new areas at any cost. We have to be very careful about hotspots. We will have to keep a close watch on the places that are expected to become hotspots.” “Hence, let us extend the strictness and austerity in the fight against corona for the upcoming one week,” he said.have stepped up aid efforts in the face of the outbreak, with Khan funding 25,000 personal protective equipment kits for frontline workers in Maharashtra.
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