Chandigarh:
The Punjab government on Friday said it was extending the COVID-19 lockdown in the state till April 30, becoming the second state to do after Odisha.
Punjab has registered 132 of the over 12,000 coronavirus cases reported in India till Friday despite a strict three-week clampdown to control the outbreak.
Areas in Delhi and Mumbai have emerged as hotspots and many states have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend the nationwide lockdown beyond its expiry date of Tuesday.
The country's shutdown has left crores out of work and forced an exodus of migrant workers from the cities to their homes in the hinterland, but states say it is more important to save lives..
Officials have warned that widespread transmissions could be disastrous in the country where crores of people live in dense slums, social distancing norms are often impossible and the health care system is overburdened.
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