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PM speaks to CMs, calls for 'staggered' movement of people post lockdown

Modi said it "can't be business as usual" after the lockdown and safeguards would have to be taken, said media reports quoting a government statement.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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The centre and states must have a "common exit strategy" for a staggered re-entry of population when the three-week national lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told chief ministers on Thursday in a video-conference meeting.
 
Modi said it "can't be business as usual" after the lockdown and safeguards would have to be taken, said media reports quoting a government statement.
 
An image tweeted by news agency ANI showed Modi sitting at a gtable and apparently looking at a screen as home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and senior civil servants sit

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