COVID-19: Lockdown across India, in line with WHO guidance UN India Normally bustling streets in cities across India were mostly deserted as the country observed the shutdown. 24 March 2020 Health India’s decision to impose a 21-day lockdown, which was announced on Tuesday, comes after a call from the UN health agency, WHO, for the country to take “aggressive action”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order for the country’s 1.3 billion people to stay home, is an escalation of the 07:00 – 21:00 “Janata curfew” introduced on March 22, and it comes a day after the government grounded all domestic flights. Mr. Modi reportedly declared that the lockdown applies to “every district, every lane, every village”, and warned that “If you can’t handle these 21 days, this country will go back 21 years”. The future of this pandemic will be determined by what happens to densely-populated countries Mike Ryan, ...
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