India's lockdown throws up challenge of containing coronavirus and taking care of the poor

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NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that some economic activity could resume in some parts amid one of the world's most stringent lockdown underlines India's challenge of containing the virus and the economic stress that is hitting the poor the hardest.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that some economic activity could resume in some parts amid one of the world's most stringent lockdowns underlines India's challenge of containing the coronavirus and the economic stress that is hitting the poor the hardest.

The bank also projected that India's economy to grow between 1.5 and 2.8 per cent in 2020-21, down from an estimate of 6.3 per cent six months ago. The announcement of a lockdown extension saw thousands of migrant workers congregate at a station in Mumbai, among the worst-affected cities in India, protesting and seeking to go home.

India took strict measures to control the spread of Covid-19 early into the outbreak when there were around 300 cases.

 

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It takes a virus for India to bother about the poor. So they'll probably just underreport the numbers to not include the peasants.

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