Railway police personnel maintain safe distance as they wait to donate blood at a camp to tackle the blood shortage during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the closed Howrah railway station in Kolkata, India, April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India reported its biggest single day increase in coronavirus cases as officials on Thursday raced to track down some 9,000 people exposed to the country's biggest infection cluster during a Muslim missionary group's gathering in the capital last month.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has placed the world's second most populous nation under a three-week lockdown until mid-April, and so far the number of coronavirus cases lags hard hit countries like the United States, Italy and Spain.
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