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On March 24th at 20:00 local time, Indian Prime Minister Modi issued a television speech announcing a 21-day national ban from the early morning of the 25th. The ban applies to all 36 states and regions in India.
In his speech, Modi said, “To save India, and for everyone here, we will block the entire country.” The Indian Ministry of the Interior has also followed suit, announcing a series of bans such as suspension of domestic passenger flight operations and disruption of state-to-state rail traffic.
The virus is gone! (Telangana-3/22) (Photo from MDSABBIR / Shutterstock.com)
Before Modi announced its total closure, more than 80 cities in India have implemented varying degrees of closure policies. India accounts for 17% of the world ’s population. If the country ’s closure policy is successfully implemented, it means that 2.8 billion people worldwide are living at home. At the same time, the three-week national blockade will also have a severe impact on India’s economy.
Can India survive?
India in the epidemic
India ’s tense state of the epidemic began on January 30. At the time, India was diagnosed with the first new type of coronary pneumonia infection. The patient came from Kerala, southern India, and was an international student studying in Wuhan.
The Indian government responded quickly after the first case was confirmed. However, the specific measures are a bit complicated. Instead of quarantine and quarantine the person who came into contact with the patient, a special plane was sent to withdraw the Indian citizens who were in Wuhan at the time. A total of 324 returning Indian citizens from Wuhan were placed in Delhi for isolation Observed.
The measures to withdraw overseas Chinese are timely but have not paid enough attention to the patients who have been diagnosed (Picture from India News Information Bureau PIB_India / twitter)
On February 1st and 2nd, the second and third confirmed cases of neocoronary pneumonia occurred in Kerala, India. Both patients were also Wuhan students. The Indian authorities immediately announced that e-visa entry for foreigners was prohibited, and the General Administration of Foreign Trade of India issued a policy restricting the export of medical protective equipment such as masks and protective clothing.
For a whole month, no confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia has been exposed among the nearly 1.38 billion people in India.