Total lockdown
India, March 26 -- Maybe it came a little too late in the day, considering it was the world's biggest social experiment with war-time precision and a huge gamble by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but India is now in a three-week nationwide lockdown to save its 1.3 billion people. A sombre-looking Modi announced a total lockdown as the days ahead were "crucial to break the cycle of transmission" of COVID-19. Many experts have suggested that a tidal wave of the quickly invasive virus was coming but this protocol would halt it in its tracks and limit the spread by a high percentage. Hopefully enough so as not to overwhelm our frail health infrastructure, which, by the PM's own admission, was nothing comparable to the West. Hence, using the ma...
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