A few hours after Modi spoke, police baton-charged protesting migrant workers in Mumbai. "That means until May 3, each and every one of us will have to remain in the lockdown," Modi said in a televised address to the nation. Later in Mumbai, thousands of jobless migrant workers gathered at a railway station, demanding to be allowed to travel to their homes in the countryside. Pakistan, with a population of 205 million, also prolonged its lockdown, due to end on Wednesday, by two weeks. Lacking testing kits and protective gear for medical workers, India has only tested 137 per million of its population, compared with 15,935 per million in Italy, and 8,138 in the United States.

Source: bd News24 April 14, 2020 14:15 UTC