India Put Under A Complete Lockdown Starting March 25 To Control Deadly Coronavirus Pandemic
India has so far reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths. India has been put under a lockdown starting midnight. There will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes Modi said in a televised address.
India has been put under a lockdown starting midnight. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an address to the nation, announced that the country has been put under a complete lockdown starting March 25.
This nationwide lockdown will be for 21 days beginning 12pm tonight: PM
¡ª Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 24, 2020
¡°In the view of the current situation, the nationwide complete lockdown will be in place for 21 days,¡± the Prime Minister declared in his second address to the nation.
PM Modi said that if we do not follow the nationwide lockdown for 21 days, we will be pushed back by 21 years.
¡°This is application for everyone, including the Prime Minister,¡± he announced.
"There will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes," Modi said in a televised address.
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¡ª narendramodi_in (@narendramodi_in) March 24, 2020
This is time for patience and discipline; I appeal to you with folded hands to remember people putting their lives at risk for our safety: PM
¡ª Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 24, 2020
India has so far reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths.
In his second address to the nation on the pandemic raging across much of the world, Modi said the decision will have an economic cost but saving people's lives is of the paramount interest to his government.
There will be a complete bar on people from stepping outside their homes, he said and even folded his hands to emphasise his request to citizens to adhere to the call.
Experts and the experience of countries fighting the deadly virus make it clear that social distancing is the only way to combat the disease, he asserted.
Urging the state government to make fighting against coronavirus their top priority, Modi announced Rs 15000 crore fund to test Corona, isolation beds, ventilators, and other essential facilities needed to battle this virus.
Experts and the experience of countries fighting the deadly virus make it clear that social distancing is the only way to combat the disease, PM asserted.
