A view of almost empty roads during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the country's 1.3 billion people to remain indoors until April 15, declaring such self-isolation was the only hope to stop the viral pandemic.
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