Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In Asia -- News Updates March 24 - 25, 2020

Daily Mail: India announces coronavirus lockdown for its entire 1.3 BILLION population from midnight

* Indian PM Narendra Modi announced a 'total ban on venturing out of homes'
* He said India had to face a 21-day health lockdown or be set back by 21 years
* India has reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths

India has today announced a 'total lockdown' for its 1.3billion people in the world's largest stay-at-home order to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Prime minister Narendra Modi announced the 'total ban on venturing out of your homes' in a televised address today.

The 21-day lockdown is set to begin at midnight in a measure which Modi says is intended 'to save India and every Indian'.

He said that if the country failed to manage the next 21 days, it would be set back 21 years.

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