New Delhi's long-running curbs on the internet prevent people in India-administered Kashmir from accessing information about the coronavirus
A masked Kashmiri man with his head covered with barbed wire attends a protest after Friday prayers during restrictions following the scrapping of the special constitutional status for India-administered Kashmir by New Delhi, in Srinagar, October 11, 2019.
The Muslim majority region has been under restrictions since New Delhi stripped it of autonomy and statehood in August. Dr Suhail Naik, president of the main doctors' association in India-administered Kashmir, said education drives seen elsewhere in India about the symptoms of the virus are impossible to run in the region.
"We are unable to connect with the students due to internet connectivity. It is 2G and they are unable to download study material," he said. "I fail to understand why they aren't restoring high speed internet. Earlier, they had an excuse of law and order problems, but now there is curfew and fear of coronavirus and no one would dare to come out."
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