The police in India resorted to violence in some cities and towns as the country struggled with the coronavirus lockdown
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU - India’s 1.3 billion people were under lockdown on Wednesday to prevent an explosion of coronavirus cases as the government struggled to deliver essential goods and calm nerves.
Others including laborers and day workers headed home to the countryside from cities such as Delhi, many walking because public transport also stopped. India’s tally of 606, including 10 deaths seems tiny compared with those in China, Italy and Spain, but health experts have warned that the world’s second most populous country faces a tidal wave of infections if tough steps are not taken.
India’s population is even more densely packed than China’s, raising the risk of rapid transmission of the virus. Other countries in South Asia - home to a quarter of the world’s population - are also struggling as they try to put up defenses against the coronavirus.
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