Jaya Kumari worked as a cook and cleaner for a couple in a wealthy neighborhood in New Delhi until two weeks ago. She lost her job when the family worked decided that to leave the overcrowded capital and moving in his home town 200 miles away, as the spread Crown began in the city. He then announced on March 25, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a nationwide block of 21 days in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Now Kumari and her husband, a taxi driver, is inserted in New Delhi, with no income and no way to make money. “We have saved the little use to get through this,” he says. “What happens after that, I leave to God.” Modis hasty announcement of unprecedented blockade were hundreds of millions of Indians to put less than four hours. In a speech to the nation, he said, leave “Forget home for the next 21 days. If you cross the threshold of the house, you invite virus home.” And ‘surrounded much of the country into chaos. Mode assured Indians that essential services will continue, but was vague about how people would be able to buy food and other necessary items. Consequently, it rushed to save people in the shops before the Regulation entered into force. People were seen late at night and the traffic jam in front of the snake shops was reported from around the country. The block also has a massive outflow of migrant workers and for employees thrown out of the cities back to rural villages are not able to pay the lot rent and food is cheaper. to see many migrants were to defy the curfew. Some have told news agencies that arrive on foot for 500 miles home. Video of chaotic scenes in the stations showed people on their last train home come to fight, some uncontrollable crying as missing. Overcrowding on public transport stations have concerns about the further spread of the virus. Mode later apologized for the damage caused by the closure difficult, but said the measures were necessary. as this COVID-19 mass congregations bring even more the risk of spreading, says Oommen C. Kurian, responsible for Health Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent think tank based in New Delhi. He is worried that immigrants might carry the virus in rural areas where the health infrastructure is weak or nonexistent. “The clear risk of lack of communication from top management and mixed messages from all over the system, the poor migrant insecure to begin the uncertain journey has chosen,” said Kurian. “The exodus of migrants may have spread the virus far and wide, India Add another layer of problems.” Most experts agree that a block in India is required to contain the spread of COVID-19 itself. A March 30 India has recorded more than 1,200 cases of COVID-19 Because of its densely populated cities provide the experts that the fragile health system in the country is not to react appropriately to a position around a mandrel in cases . So far, India has administered more than 38,000 tests. While the country initially faced criticism for its low test numbers, the number of tests has been increased in the days after the lockout. Experts say that India, the time of the revocation to test more and find and contain hotspots should use purchased. “Prevention is a stronger strategy for the serious shortage of hospital beds, ventilators and protective equipment,” says Shamika Ravi, director of research at the Brookings reference to India, for the withdrawal of need. “To understand how this will play out after the block, we need to get aggressive with the test.” Stay up to date on the growing threat to global health, by signing up for our daily newsletter crown. But for most of the Indians, social distancing is a luxury they can not afford. Many face hunger and starvation in the absence of the days, which were interrupted as the seventh largest economy in the world to a halt. On 26 March, India has announced a package of $22.5 billion in relief to support the poorest people in the country and the power to help themselves. The government plans to use existing welfare systems to roll the rescue operation, the free distribution of food and money transfers, belongs to millions of low-income families across the country. As part of the rescue operation, low-income workers as Kumari will get 500 rupees (less than $7) per month for the next three months. This is a fraction of 4,000 rupees ($53) he was doing prior to losing their jobs. Immediately, the husband is not qualified, they had no right to announced as his income measures covered him as the “poorest of the poor” of government support. Kumari fears that the money will not be enough from the government their family of four, if the blockade continues to fuel. Most of those that are the responsibility of the new rules, in India the massive informal economy, about 424 million Indians, approximately 90% of the workforce, according to the Ministry of Finance of the country. It is a population of more than the combined size of the US, UK and Australia. sale of Auto Rickshaw driver, milkmen, suppliers that vegetables and snacks from cars, are all part of this economy, most live in days, will receive no benefit and work orders which do not exist on paper. “This crisis is a shining torch on the fragility of the Indian economy, which must be visited,” says Samir Saran, chairman of the Observer Research Foundation. Commends the existing social services decision of the government to provide for the poor relief to immediate use but says they need a lot more will be done when the full impact of the fourth block. “This should be immediate measures are just the worst short-term effects are opaque and are not intended as an incentive,” he adds. To make matters worse, the Indian economy was already struggling with rising growth and unemployment crisis. Even some companies that flourish in other parts of the disabled in India world. For example, the famous Mumbai dabbawala (the lunch box carriers) have to provide machined rain or shine people on home-made lunch in their offices, schools and colleges for nearly 130 years. They braved severe floods and terrorist attacks, but the services were interrupted due to the crown, even before the blockade was announced 5000 delivery men force them to stay at home. “Even if you start to run again, it makes no sense, because everyone is staying at home,” says Subhash Gangaram Talekar, president of Mumbai Dabbawala Association, which affected to such dabbawalas are also useful as a food delivery services around the world growing in popularity at the time. “Who are we to Dabbas [lunch boxes]?” But the arrest of a country like India for a long time will be difficult, largely because the level of poverty in the country, says Suyash Rai, a researcher at the Carnegie India, an international center for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With so many shattered lives, he believes that the government of the country could keep bad water fight. “And ‘the question of where the government will get the money, the country to hold for extended if [the block],” says Rai. “It ‘s important to identify hot spots during this block and open the remaining parts of the economy, while opportunities to find work in this COVID world.” For many, that wait might be the only option, and miserable, prolonged crisis. Prakash, who goes only by its name, is an autorickshaw driver in Thiruvananthapuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. His daily income began to see a bath two weeks before the data was announced. Kerala has been to bring the first state in India cases of COVID-19 and set in the time before panic that has spread to other parts of the country. Before the outbreak, he was concerned with paying for the expenses of his son’s college. But while no daily income remains at home, his main concern is food on the table. He estimates his savings for a month can last. After that, not sure what he will do. “The virus does not bother me as much as the uncertainty that awaits on the other side of this crisis.” Please send tips, leads and stories from the front to [email protected].
Hasty crown block of the Indian Modi leaves many anxious for what’s next
