New Delhi, Scores of Indian Districts Under Lockdown to Contain CCP Virus

Vehicles are stopped by policemen at a checkpoint at the Uttar Pradesh and Delhi border to inforce a lockdown order in some districts by Uttar Pradesh's government as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, in Ghazipur on March 23, 2020. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images

MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI—New Delhi will be under lockdown until March 31, the Indian capital’s government announced March 22, seeking to keep citizens indoors to prevent the spread of the CCP virus and giving police powers to punish violators.

The city’s borders with neighboring states will be sealed and public transport will be suspended, the city’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said.