Derek Gomes is 77 years old and needs kidney dialysis three times a week. His wife Jennifer Gomes depends on auto rickshaws to take him to ...
Derek Gomes is 77 years old and needs kidney dialysis three times a week. His wife Jennifer Gomes depends on auto rickshaws to take him to the Nanavati Hospital, four km away from their flat in Khar in Mumbai. But she is worried she won’t find one for the next 21 days.
Prabir Kumar Banerjee, 79, needs to complete his four-month-long chemotherapy cycle for bone marrow cancer. The resident of Faridabad, Haryana, has appointments at the Apollo Hospital in Delhi on March 25 and April 1. “The hospital said that the treatment cannot be delayed,” said Mahashweta Banerjee, his daughter-in-law, who has a car. “But we do not know if we will be allowed to go without curfew passes.”
In a televised address on the evening of March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s largest lockdown ever: 1.2 billion Indians will have to stay home for 21 days to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus which has killed more than 18,000 people across the world. Until Tuesday evening, 536 people had tested positive in India, while 10 had died of the Covid-19 disease. Experts fear the virus has spread widely in the community.
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