Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged India’s 1.3 billion citizens to put themselves under self-curfew on Sunday to protect themselves from the coronavirus, hours after the government announced it was barring all international flights from landing in the country for a week starting March 22.
The announcement came as the number of coronavirus cases in India reached 173 on Thursday.
Four people have died in India of the coronavirus, which originated in China and has spread quickly around the globe, claiming thousands of lives, hurting economic activity and forcing countries to go into lockdown.