• 印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪告訴政府部長，“完全不可能”解除該國的封鎖，這表明原定於4月15日結束的封鎖措施可能延長。
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation's poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of adequate planning ahead of the decision.
| Jeffrey Gettleman, our New Delhi bureau chief, has been covering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lockdown of India’s 1.3 billion people. I spoke with him about the unanswered questions in the government’s sweeping guidelines and what we can expect next. |
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| Walk us through the lead-up to the lockdown. On the ground, were you surprised that people seemed to immediately stay home and follow the rules? |
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| There had been a steady ratcheting up of restrictions around India. So, the lockdown that Modi announced for the entire government was pretty consistent with what was already happening in some places, including New Delhi. |
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| India has strong internal control by its security forces. The police forces are employed to control the population. People tend to be scared of police officers on the street, and they want to get out of their way. They treat citizens pretty harshly. |
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| The government here is trying to learn from the mistakes or the slowness of what happened in other countries. They saw what happened in China and how effective lockdowns were once they were put in place — that’s more their model than anything else. |
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| A shopkeeper waiting in a market in Mumbai on Thursday. Atul Loke for The New York Times |
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| India’s caseload is still relatively low — about 600 confirmed infections. What’s the big worry when the number grows? |
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| The country spends very little on health care per capita. So the health care system here is underfunded, and it’s an enormous population, it’s 1.3 billion people. Public hospitals, the number of doctors, the number of beds, equipment they use, it’s all below the standards of most other parts of the world. |
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| Some of the best hospitals in the world are really struggling. So just imagine how a hospital that has much fewer resources would respond. |
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| You’ve written about what this means for India’s poor and for informal workers who might live hand-to-mouth or paycheck to paycheck. Can you expand? |
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| They can withstand a few days of no work. Can they withstand a few weeks or a few months? |
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| Informal workers can’t get to their places of work. Factories have been closed, public transportation has been closed. There are thousands and thousands of people who make money as rickshaw drivers, who support their families doing that. |
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| There has been talk of giving them cash subsidies. There has been talk of pressuring landlords or asking landlords not to demand rent at the time being from poor people — that has yet to be enacted into law. |
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| There will be a cost. In a place where people live hand-to-mouth, huge economic costs can carry a lot of other problems — health problems, malnutrition. |
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| Are we finding out more about how people are going to access the essential services exempt from the lockdown? |
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| They haven’t spelled this out super clearly. The gist of it is that you can go to your closest pharmacy or food source, and because India is so densely populated, those places are everywhere. So people are walking to those areas. |
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| There’s been some confusion, and some pharmacies and food shops were made to shut. So, there’s confusion in how these rules are being enforced. Some journalists have gotten beaten up, because the police officers said they weren’t allowed to travel. But it explicitly says if you’re media, you’re exempt from the rules. |
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| What are we watching for next? |
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| The big question is how much community transmission is happening, if at all. If the disease begins to spread person to person from people who had no connection to the outside, then that’s really scary. |
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| These neighborhoods are some of the most densely populated parts of the world, endless blocks of tenement apartments squeeze really close to each other, with narrow lanes between them and open sewage running alongside the sidewalk and people together — mile after mile of it. |
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| And then another part of this is: India’s trying to do what nobody else has done, pull off the unprecedented, which is to stop the virus in its tracks. No other population has managed to do that. It’s going to be really interesting if they can pull it off. |
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為了遵守印度總理莫迪頒佈的全國封鎖令，鴻海和緯創已暫停印度工廠的生產。鴻海在給彭博的短訊中表示，公司的業務暫停將持續到4月14日。公司打算根據政府的進一步聲明恢復印度的生產。緯創的代表表示，該公司也會遵守命令，但拒絕就受影響的具體產品置評。
印度週日開始實施宵禁，成千上萬的人留在室內，但在下午5點鐘集體敲響鈴鐺或敲擊鋼板。該國共報告了約350例確診病例，在一個擁有13億人口的國家，這一數字相當低。當局還於週日關閉了地鐵和州際客運列車。
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