Hundreds of millions of Indians were ordered into lockdowns Sunday in the world’s second-most populous nation, which stepped up measures to halt the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus. The raft of state shutdowns in the nation of 1.3 billion people came during a 14-hour voluntary curfew that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would test India’s ability to fight the pandemic. “This is the start of a long fight,” Modi tweeted as the curfew came to an end.
