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| India's prime minister orders lockdown of country of 1.3 billion people for 21 days |
| 2020-03-25 |
| [Bloomberg] India will begin the world’s largest lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address Tuesday night, warning that anyone going outside risked inviting the coronavirus inside their homes, and pledging $2 billion to bolster the country’s beleaguered health care system. "To save India and every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes," Modi said, adding that if the country failed to manage the next 21 days, it could be set back by 21 years. India’s stay-at-home order puts nearly one-fifth of the world’s population under lockdown. Indian health officials have reported 469 active cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and 10 deaths. Officials have repeatedly insisted there is no evidence yet of communal spread but have conducted relatively scant testing for the disease. In recent days, India has been gradually expanding stay-at-home orders and has banned international and domestic flights and suspended passenger service on its extensive rail system. Essential service providers, including hospitals, police and media had been exempted from the stay-in-place orders, and many grocery stores and pharmacies remained open. Modi called Tuesday’s order a "total lockdown" and did not address whether any service providers would be exempt, but said that "all steps have been taken by central and state government to ensure supply of essential items." |
| Posted by:Seeking Cure For Ignorance |
| #12 LOL |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 16:53 |
| #11 And we'll continue to supply you with humanitarian staff too. Not being facetious: when you have Muslims for neighbors, the staff we supply IS humanitarian. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 16:35 |
| #10 Golda Meir sent arms to India during the 1971 war and Israel shipped PGMs and artillery shells from its own war stocks to India during the 1999 Kargil war so Netanyahu can call in the favor. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 16:33 |
| #9 "India will continue to supply pharmaceuticals to Israel despite the ban on drug exports. The ban was lifted following a special request by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Prime Minister Narendra Modi." |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 16:28 |
| #8 The same drug is used to clean fish tanks. Two darwin award laureates took a dose equivalent to several grams and have departed this earth |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 16:25 |
| #7 ^Lost me Besoeker. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 15:19 |
| #6 /\ No shortage, but your Angle Fish may have a visibility problem. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-25 15:13 |
| #5 #2 So, there won't be a shortage of Hydroxychloroquine in USA? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 15:10 |
| #4 Pakistan used the occasion of a South Asian Leaders teleconference on the Wuhan Coronavirus to bring up the issue of Kashmir. SMH |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 15:04 |
| #3 ^ Just like Pakistain is doing /Just kidding |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-03-25 14:55 |
| #2 A 20 billion+ US dollar aid package is being prepared by the Indian Government. It will see direct payments into the bank accounts of 100 million poor and to businesses affected by the lockdown. The Indian Government has also ordered the development of ICU ventilators "on a war footing". The Indian Defense Research Agency is repurposing flow sensors and pumps used in aerospace applications to ventilator use. Both large public sector and private companies being roped in. Other companies have been instructed to shift production towards medical personal protection equipment like gloves, masks and gowns. Exports of drugs used to treat Covid-19 has been banned, with production ramped up. Other Indian companies have begun vaccine production and preliminary trials. https://i.imgur.com/gN2mwl5.jpg |
| Posted by: John Frum 2020-03-25 14:27 |
| #1 I wonder how Dron is faring? |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-03-25 13:35 |