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In local coronavirus news, 14 new coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in the UK bringing up the total number to 35. Health authorities confirmed a 20% rise in confirmed coronavirus cases to 1,372.
In an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus, the British government announced that it would isolate older people “within weeks” and force those diagnosed with coronavirus into quarantine. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated that people over 70-years of age would be kept away from the virus by being placed under self-isolation for a minimum period of 4 months. The announcement is said to come in “the coming weeks”. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that Britain will be able to force people to quarantine if needed in order to combat the spread of coronavirus. Britain has advised travellers to cancel all non-essential travel to the United States. This comes after the U.S. government’s travel ban restricting countries with high coronavirus incidences like the UK and Ireland.
For years, Hindus and Muslims lived and worked peacefully together in Yamuna Vihar, a densely populated Delhi district.
But the riots that raged through the district last month appear to have cleaved lasting divisions in the community, reflecting a nationwide trend as tensions over the Hindu nationalist agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi boil over.
Many Hindus in Yamuna Vihar, a sprawl of residential blocks and shops dotted with mosques and Hindu temples, and in other riot-hit districts of northeast Delhi, say they are boycotting merchants and refusing to hire workers from the Muslim community. Muslims say they are scrambling to find jobs at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has heightened pressure on India’s economy.
“I have decided to never work with Muslims,” said Yash Dhingra, who has a shop selling paint and bathroom fittings in Yamuna Vihar. “I have identified new workers, they are Hindus,” he said, standing in a narrow lane that was the scene of violent clashes in the riots that erupted on Feb. 23.
The trigger for the riots, the worst sectarian violence in the Indian capital in decades, was a citizenship law introduced last year that critics say marginalises India’s Muslim minority. Police records show at least 53 people, mostly Muslims, were killed and more than 200 were injured.
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