Snapshots from Modi's 5 pm call for gratitude

Prime Minister Narendra Modi encouraged citizens to show thanks to health workers by clapping or banging vessels at their windows--but some people broke the rule of social distancing while doing so
Curated By: Amit Verma
Published: Mar 23, 2020
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Image by : Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images

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GURGAON: People gather in balconies of a residential building to clap and make noise with kitchenware to thank essential service providers during a one-day Janata (civil) curfew imposed amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, in Gurgaon on March 22, 2020. Millions of people in India were in lockdown on March 22 as the government tests the country's ability to fight the pandemic that has killed nearly 13,000 worldwide