Includes shops and public transportation
Closure in "West Bengal", India, due to the high number of cases of "Corona"
Indian police enforce lockdown rules.
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The Indian state of West Bengal, which was severely affected by the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic, imposed a two-week lockdown, in an attempt to reduce the high number of infections, and all offices, stores and public transportation will be closed for a period of two weeks in this state in northeastern India. Record number of injuries and deaths reported.
The state recorded 21,000 new infections out of 326,000 reported infections in India, yesterday.
In total, India recorded 3,890 new deaths from the virus, bringing the total number of infections since the outbreak of the epidemic to 24.37 million, and deaths to 265,000 deaths.
In Geneva, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the second year of the pandemic may be more deadly than the first year, and that India is a cause of great concern.
Ghebreyesus’s comments came during an online meeting after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the alarm about the rapid spread of the disease in the sprawling countryside.
Data from the Indian Ministry of Health indicates that India recorded about 1.7 million new infections and more than 20 thousand deaths during the past week.
Indian banks have lost more than 1,000 employees as a result of being infected with the Corona virus, according to the All India Bankers Association.
"We have lost more than 1,000 colleagues," SIC Secretary General S Nagarajan told Bloomberg.
Bank employees are frontline employees and the virus affects them. ”
Several Indian states are under lockdown under strict stay-at-home rules, but the banking sector is classified as an essential service and is partially exempt from lockdown orders.
It is permissible for banks in some cases to call up to 50% of their workforce in their branches to avoid any obstruction in banking services.
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