NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking on the ninth day of a nationwide lockout, asked Indians to switch off their lights for nine minutes at 9pm on Sunday and hold up a light in a symbolic act to “challenge the darkness spread by the corona crisis". “Listen carefully, on the 5th of April, at 9pm, turn off all the lights in your homes, stand at your doors or in you balconies, and light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes," Modi said in a video address to the nation on Friday. “This collective spirit of yours, of the nation, can be seen manifesting itself during these times of lockdown," Modi said in his third address since 19 March on the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 78 Indians and infected

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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