India to go under total Covid-19 lockdown, says PM Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. FILE PHOTO | AFP
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- "To save India, to save its every citizen, you, your family... every street, every neighbourhood is being put under lockdown," the Prime Minister said.
New Delhi
India's 1.3 billion people will go under "total lockdown" from midnight Tuesday for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
"From 12 midnight today, the entire country will be in lockdown, total lockdown," Modi said in a national television address to the world's second most-populous nation.
"To save India, to save its every citizen, you, your family... every street, every neighbourhood is being put under lockdown."
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