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India Locks Down Major Cities in Effort to Contain Coronavirus Spread

HeadlineMar 23, 2020

In India, authorities have placed lockdown orders on 75 districts, which include the heavily populated cities of New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, after a nationwide 14-hour “test” curfew took place on Sunday. India currently has just over 400 confirmed cases of COVID-19, but health officials say the disease could spread extremely fast through the country, which has the world’s second-highest population at 1.3 billion.

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