PM Modi plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus lockdown
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Volunteers pack grocery items to be distributed amongst poor and homeless people during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle to contain the country’s biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi. The shutdown, which has brought Asia’s third-largest economy to a shuddering halt, is due to end on April 14. Modi had ordered India’s 1.3 billion people indoors to avert a massive outbreak of coronavirus...