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India’s poor hit hard by 21-day nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic | South China Morning Post

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After Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown starting this week, some of the country’s poor, including daily wage labourers and migrant workers, were suddenly put out of work.

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