NEW DELHI : It has been a year since India's 1.3 billion people responded positively to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a 'janata curfew' to break the chain of novel coronavirus, which had then started to spread in some parts of the country.Since the 14 hour-long 'janata curfew' on March 22, 2020, announced by Modi "for the people, by the people", there has been no looking back in India's fight against COVID-19 to control the virus which, as on Wednesday, has infected 1,17,34,058 people and claimed 1,60,441 lives.Modi subsequently announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown effective from the intervening night of March 24 and 25.Soon, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued its first guidelines clarifying about services to be exempted.
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