{"id":21829,"date":"2020-03-25T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-live-spain-death-toll-rises-514-in-24-hrs-india-cases-at-562\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:12:02","slug":"coronavirus-live-spain-death-toll-rises-514-in-24-hrs-india-cases-at-562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21829","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus LIVE: Spain death toll rises 514 in 24 hrs; India cases at 562"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Business Standard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus LIVE updates:<\/strong> Even as India’s 1.3 billion citizens go into a 21-day lockdown, the country’s total number of cases rose to 562 on Wednesday, with Tamil Nadu reporting the death of a 54-year-old coronavirus patient. On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to stall the spread of coronavirus, which has claimed 9 lives in India. The restrictions came into force at midnight and will be in force for 21 days. The new measures follow a sharp increase in cases in recent days. India, which has a population of 1.3 billion, joins a growing list of countries that have imposed similar measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To save India, to save its every citizen, you, your family\u2026 every street, every neighbourhood is being put under lockdown,” Modi said in a televised speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi warned that if India does not “handle these 21 days well, then our country\u2026 will go backwards by 21 years”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is a curfew,” he said. “We will have to pay the economic cost of this but it is for your safety.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He appealed for people not to panic and assured the essential services will carry on as usual – but crowds quickly mobbed stores in the Delhi and other cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covid-19 has affected 421,413 people globally and 18,810 people have died from it across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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