NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to empower states and give them more financial resources to combat the spread of covid-19. “A lockdown is like a pause button, it is in no way a solution to coronavirus.

When we come out of the lockdown, the virus is going to start its work again. So it is very important to have a strategy to come out of lockdown," Gandhi said in a digital press conference.

It was his first media interaction since the national lockdown was imposed on 25 March. Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday extended the nationwide lockdown to 3 May as India continued to report a sharp rise in cases despite prohibitory measures in place.

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