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People's curfew) was a 14-hour curfew on 22 March 2020 initiated by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India (from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.). [29] Every person was asked to obey the curfew, with exceptions for people of "essential services" such as police, medical services, media, home delivery professionals, and firefighters.
While supporting the Prime Minister's Janata curfew call, the Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekar Rao appealed to the people of Telangana to stay indoors for 24hrs from 6 am on Sunday (22-03-2020) in order to contain the possible spread of coronavirus. [103] On 23 March, the state government imposed night curfew from 7 pm till 6 am. [20]
India reported its first case of COVID-19 in January 2020, and by March 2020, the government implemented a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the virus. However, this lockdown resulted in significant economic disruption and social challenges, particularly for the millions of informal workers who lost their livelihoods.
On 9 March 2020, 4 positive cases were reported. 76 contacts were found. [16] On 11 March 2020, a 46-year-old male who travelled to Japan, Geneva and Italy contracted the virus. [17] [18] On 12 March 2020, a 69-year-old female was infected. [19] On 13 March 2020, the mother of the 46-year-old died. She was the second COVID-19 death in India. [20]
The activities at the Markaz apparently went unhindered until 22 March, when a Janata curfew was observed throughout India at the instance of prime minister Narendra Modi. At the end of the Janata Curfew, a lockdown came into effect in Delhi. The group said that it was able to move out around 1,500 people on the following days with some difficulty.
On 20 March 2020, Navajo Nation announced that it had broadened the stay-at-home order to cover the entire reservation, the largest in the country. [332] San Francisco's Market Street during the curfew in April 2020. On 21 March 2020, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy announced a state-wide stay-at-home order effective at 9 p.m. on the same day ...
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the country on 25 March.
The following is the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India from January 2020 through May 2020. Timeline of the pandemic spread across India (30 January 2020 to 3 April 2020) This article needs to be updated .