NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday to head off the epidemic's peak, with officials racing to make up for lost time as the caseload crossed 10,000.
Modi ordered India's 1.3 billion people to continue to largely stay inside until May 3, but said some restrictions away from infection hotspots would be eased on April 20 to help poor people dependent upon daily wages.
India has a long history of battling infectious disease, from a 19th century malaria epidemic to the Nipah virus outbreak in 2018.
But experts have said these experiences — and the monthslong head start India had while neighboring China contended with the coronavirus — were squandered.
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