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Rajpath, India's ceremonial boulevard is seen during a lockdown to control the new virus spread, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile health care system as it has done elsewhere. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Police struggle to enforce India's sweeping virus lockdown
March 25, 2020 10:19 a.m.

Police struggle to enforce India's sweeping virus lockdown

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians struggled to comply with the world's largest coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday as the government began the gargantuan task of keeping 1.3 billion people indoors.