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March 23, 2020

India Locks Down Major Cities in Effort to Contain Coronavirus Spread
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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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