India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to extend the world's biggest pandemic lockdown by another two weeks
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to extend the world's biggest pandemic lockdown for two weeks, state ministers said after talks Saturday on the growing fallout in the country.
India has so far reported about 7,500 cases and 240 deaths. But the government says there is no community transmission. Other ministers who took part in the video conference talks on Saturday told media the lockdown would go on for another two weeks. Millions of people have lost jobs in the past three weeks and the lockdown sparked a mass migration as workers headed for their home villages.
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