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Shutting down marketplaces and industries, and confining people in their homes, was perhaps the easier part of our coronavirus containment strategy.

It’s the lifting of curbs to let factories operate that is going to prove rather difficult. This harsh reality was evident in the closure of an assembly unit in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida, a plant run by the smartphone maker Oppo.

It had resumed production on 9 May, but has been shut down again after six of its employees tested positive for the virus. The company is now testing more than 3,000 employees.

Despite our social-distancing measures, and a lockdown billed as the world’s strictest, the curve of infection cases in India is refusing to flatten.

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