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Coronavirus Outbreak: Govt Invokes Colonial-Era Epidemic Diseases Act; What Does It Mean?

Reethu Ravi

As India struggles to contain the sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country, the cabinet secretary on Wednesday, March 11, announced that all states and Union Territories should invoke provisions of Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897."It was decided that all States/UTs...