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On the evening of 24 March 2020, the Government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, limiting the movement of the entire 1.38 billion (138 crores) population of India as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in India. [1] It was ordered after a 14-hour voluntary public curfew on 22 March, followed by enforcement of a ...
On 12 January 2020, the WHO confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan, Hubei, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. On 30 January 2020, India reported its first case of COVID-19 in Thrissur, Kerala, which rose to three cases by 3 February 2020; all were students ...
Timeline of the pandemic spread across India (30 January 2020 to 3 April 2020) This article needs to be updated . Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India has been largely disruptive. India's growth in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2020 went down to 3.1% according to the Ministry of Statistics. The Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India said that this drop is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic effect on the Indian economy.
According to recent study, deaths in India number roughly 4 million during COVID-19 pandemic. Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [26] [19] Journalists, [27] mathematicians, [11] epidemiologists, [28] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [29] according to their expertise ...
17 July – The Population Control Bill, 2019 is a proposed bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Rakesh Sinha. The purpose of the bill is to control the Population growth of India. The proposed bill was signed by 125 Members of Parliament (MP).
10 July – Wanted Criminal Vikas Dubey encountered. 17 July – Number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 1 million. [28] 21 July – ongoing – Floods in Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam. 29 July – National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), a new policy on education in India approved by the Union Cabinet.
To constitute India's 17th Lok Sabha, general elections were held in April–May 2019.The results were announced on 23 May 2019. The main contenders were two alliance groups of the Incumbent National Democratic Alliance and the Opposition United Progressive Alliance and Indian National Congress respectively.