Bangladesh extends COVID-19 lockdown, Modi mulls longer restrictions for India
12 April, 2020
In South Asia's most current techniques to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh has prolonged its nationwide lockdown by 11 days while Indian Primary Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on Saturday (Apr 11) with states to decide whether to extend its stringent restrictions beyond in a few days.
In Bangladesh, where in fact the army has been deployed in the united states to enforce public distancing measures, the federal government late on Friday extended the nationwide lockdown to Apr 25 as the quantity of confirmed situations rose to 424, with 27 deaths.
People, wearing protective fits, walk along a good graveyard to join in a good funeral of a person who died because of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
On the other hand India's 21-day lockdown ends on Tuesday and several states have urged PM Modi to increase it further, even while concerns have risen that the shutdown has put millions of poor people unemployed and forced an exodus of migrant employees from cities to villages.
In signs of developing concern, 81 migrant personnel were arrested in India's western city of Surat after they started fires and threw stones in protests late on Friday evening, demanding to be permitted to go back to their house areas, police said.
"The personnel are without work due to the lockdown, and are struggling to sustain themselves," one police official said.
Indian officials have warned that widespread virus transmissions could possibly be disastrous on a nation where millions reside in slums and medical system has already been overburdened.
The amount of cases in India rose to 7,471 on Saturday, with capital city New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai fast emerging as hotspots.
At least two Indian says - Odisha in the east and Punjab in the north - have decided to increase the lockdown until April end.
Officials government statistics on the pass on of the coronavirus found in South Asia are as follows:
- India has 7,471 confirmed, including 239 deaths
- Pakistan has 4,788 cases, including 71 deaths
- Afghanistan has 521 situations, including 15 deaths
- Sri Lanka has 190 cases, including 7 deaths
- Bangladesh has 424 conditions, including 27 deaths
- Maldives has 19 instances and no deaths
- Nepal has nine cases and no deaths
- Bhutan has five conditions and no deaths
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