In cities and towns across India, residents heeded the call of Prime Minister Modi to turn off their lights at 9pm local time on Sunday, and light candles and traditional lamps.
Twinkling flames from candles and traditional lamps lit up India's night sky Sunday in a nine-minute show to mark the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has left the vast nation in lockdown.
"Salute to the light of the lamp which brings auspiciousness, health and prosperity, which destroys negative feelings," Modi tweeted in Sanskrit. He shared photos of himself lighting a"diya" clay lamp.Modi on Friday had called on Indians to take part in the event to"defeat the deep darkness of the crisis by spreading the glory of light in all four directions".
Many others have been blocked from returning home. The government has set up tens of thousands of makeshift camps and feeding centres for 7.5 million people. "If the Nizamuddin incident had not happened, then our case doubling rate which is currently 4.1 would have been 7.4 days," health ministry official Lav Agarwal told reporters on Sunday.
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