Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautions the country’s 1.3 billion people against any complacency in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Indian health workers walk inside a containment zone during lockdown to prevent the spread of new coronavirus in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, April 26, 2020. A month long restrictions in this country of 1.3 billion people have been eased somewhat by allowing neighborhood shops to reopen and manufacturing and farming activities to resume in rural areas to help millions of poor daily wage earners.
“There should be no negligence at any local level due to overconfidence,” he said. “We have to be very careful about this for a long time to come.” — CHINA SEES NO DEATHS AGAIN: China on Sunday reported no new deaths from the coronavirus for the 11th straight day. It also confirmed 11 more cases, raising its total to 82,827. Five of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province, a northeastern border area with Russia that has seen a surge in infections. Another was in Guangdong province, a manufacturing and tech region bordering Hong Kong in the south. The other five were imported from overseas.
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