: Today’s coronavirus updates: Toll rises to 10, Modi announces countrywide lockdown for 21 days #IndiaNEWS India reported one Covid-19 death on Tuesday, taking the toll to 10. The number of cases

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Today’s coronavirus updates: Toll rises to 10, Modi announces countrywide lockdown for 21 days #IndiaNEWS
India reported one Covid-19 death on Tuesday, taking the toll to 10. The number of cases of coronavirus rose to 519, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Of these, 469 are active cases.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech to the country at 8 pm, said that a nationwide lockdown would come into effect for three weeks starting midnight on Tuesday. “If we are not able to manage the upcoming 21 days [of lockdown] we will be pushed back by 21 years,� Modi said.The prime minister also announced that the Centre had allocated Rs 15,000 crore to improve the health infrastructure in the country. He admitted that there would be an economic cost due to the shutdown, but said that saving human lives was more important. The Centre had on Sunday suspended all train, metro and interstate bus services across the country till March 31 in unprecedented steps to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. A number of states on Tuesday imposed a lockdown, and states and Union Territories which had imposed a lockdown in some districts extended it to the entire state. As of Tuesday evening, 32 states and Union Territories in India had imposed a lockdown or a curfew.On Monday, the Centre announced that all domestic...Read more

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