All of India Ordered Under Lockdown for 21 Days to Fight Coronavirus

[BeckyDem]

India has so far reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday the government would impose a nationwide lockdown from midnight for 21 days to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

"There will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes," Modi said in a televised address.

India has so far reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/all-of-india-ordered-under-lockdown-for-21-days-to-fight-coronavirus-1.8706375

[lunasun]

1. Hand stamping idea for people returning from international travel to self quarantine was a bust

there . Can’t wash it off easily but too many cases of people hiding the stamps and trying to travel move about not stay home with stamp plus too many issues with panic at stamp sighting
They have about enough cases and spreading it could be a bad place for that to happen
This below was a failed attempt at some point the stay at home order had to come imo
Might as well be now later could be catastrophic

Link to tweet

?s=21

[BeckyDem]

3. wow.

[lunasun]

4. I added link to my above post it was only in certain areas +didn't work

[BeckyDem]

5. Thanks so much for the info. I appreciate it.

[Afromania]

2. Why are people being so fucking stupid about this?

[Recursion]

6. I can't even imagine what that would mean in India

Forget "paycheck to paycheck", there's hundreds of millions of people living from one trip to the market to another there.

[BeckyDem]

7. True.

This Is What It’s Like Inside Coronavirus Quarantine When Almost Everything Goes Wrong

India has so far avoided the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. But Indians returning from Europe were held in unsanitary conditions ripe for cross-contamination, threatened with violence, and accused of elitism.


Reporting From

New Delhi

Posted on March 19, 2020, at 11:01 a.m. ET

There are similarities between India and the US in how sections of the media and political leaders are responding to the coronavirus outbreak. Fox News and Donald Trump have embraced xenophobia to defend against the virus, which the US president now exclusively refers to as “the Chinese virus.”

In India, community transmission is thought to still be low, and most affected cases are believed to have been “imported” from coronavirus-affected countries. So the pandemic has become a way to blame “elite” Indians who can afford to travel outside the country — and now, who complain about quarantine facilities and the government’s lack of preparedness, for “giving India a bad name.”

On Wednesday, an Indian news station ran a segment named “FLYERS THROW TANTRUMS! CHAOS AT INTN'L AIRPORT.” The channel, CNN-IBN, aired closely edited footage of Sabharwal and Dhingra’s group of travelers standing before an immigration desk.

“Is this the sort of behavior that we expect Indian citizens to display? Just take a...just listen to this!” the news anchor says in the video. The accompanying audio is an incoherent rumble from the crowd until one man is clearly heard screaming: “Shoot us! Shoot us then!”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/coronavirus-india-quarantine-testing

[rustbeltvoice]

8. Will the telephone calls stop

from all the Indian scam phone centers?