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A girl dressed in traditional attire to celebrate "Gudi Padwa", or the Marathi New Year, stands by a window and holds a placard with an acronym for the Coronavirus that reads in hindi "Nobody should come out on the roads," in Mumbai, 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. For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A girl dressed in traditional attire to celebrate "Gudi Padwa", or the Marathi New Year, stands by a window and holds a placard with an acronym for the Coronavirus that reads in hindi "Nobody should come out on the roads," in Mumbai, 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 …

March 25, 2020

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Some defy India's sweeping virus lockdown but most stay in
March 25, 2020 3:02 a.m.

Some defy India's sweeping virus lockdown but most stay in

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians woke up to deserted streets on Wednesday as the government began the gargantuan task of keeping 1.3 billion people indoors during a Hindu holiday season to prevent the coronavirus from rapidly spreading across the subcontinent.