The move comes ahead of a nationwide people's curfew. FMTNews TamilNadu
CHENNAI: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday took the rare step of closing its borders with several neighbouring states because of the coronavirus pandemic.
While India has virtually sealed its land borders with other countries and incoming flights are banned from Sunday, officials said they could not recall a state closing internal borders like this in recent decades. Between them, the three states now cut off from Tamil Nadu account for more than 40 of India’s cases.
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