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An Indian attendant checks the temperature of a customer before allowing him inside a supermarket during lockdown in Bangalore, India, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The unprecedented lockdown keeping India's 1.3 billion people at home for all but essential trips to places like supermarkets or pharmacies is meant to keep virus cases from surging above the 553 already recorded and overwhelming an already strained health care system. 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/Aijaz Rahi)

An Indian attendant checks the temperature of a customer before allowing him inside a supermarket during lockdown in Bangalore, India, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The unprecedented lockdown keeping India's 1.3 billion people at home for all but essential trips to places like supermarkets or pharmacies is meant to keep virus cases from surging above the 553 already recorded and overwhelming an already strained health care system. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symp…

March 26, 2020

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Jobless after virus lockdown, India's poor struggle to eat
March 26, 2020 3:33 a.m.

Jobless after virus lockdown, India's poor struggle to eat

NEW DELHI (AP) — Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid distribution Thursday, as both the public and private sector work to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.