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Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.
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Paragraph: "India has reported 471 cases of the coronavirus but health experts have warned that a big jump could be imminent, which would overwhelm the underfunded and crumbling public health infrastructure. On Monday, India confirmed two more deaths, bringing the total to nine. One was a 54-year-old man with no history of foreign travel, suggesting the start of community transmission of the virus, officials said. Streets were deserted in the national capital New Delhi and offices shut at the start of a lockdown to run till the end of the month. The government ordered commercial airlines to shut down domestic operations from midnight on Tuesday on top of a ban on international flights to try and contain the coronavirus. About 144 million people traveled on domestic flights last year. Rail travel, the lifeline of India, has already been suspended after thousands of people, mostly migrant workers, swarmed train stations to go home as businesses shut down and jobs dried up. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said many Indians were not taking the lockdown seriously. “Please save yourself, save your family, follow the instructions seriously,” he said on Twitter. The chief minister of the western state of Maharashtra, which has had the highest number of cases in India, ordered a curfew from Tuesday to force people indoors. “Despite multiple requests, people are not following rules. This compelled the government to impose the curfew,” Uddhav Thackeray said. The country’s main stock exchange located in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra, will however remain open, an official said. On Monday night, the Indian government said 30 states and union territories, or 548 districts, were under “complete lockdown.”   Newspapers canceled print runs in Mumbai after vendors refused to distribute them due to worries about the coronavirus, which emerged in China late last year and has spread around the world. Globally, cases exceed 325,000 with deaths topping 14,000. The Pakistani army said on Monday night it would help to impose nationwide restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus following a request from the government. Major General Babar Iftikhar said schools, malls, restaurants, cinemas, marriage halls, swimming pools and markets would be shut as of Monday with only eateries, pharmaceutical companies and medical stores allowed to remain open. Prime Minister Imran Khan had previously said he opposed such stringent measures because of the economic consequences for the poor. A spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nepal ordered all land border crossings with India and China shut until March 29, saying thousands of people, most of them Nepali migrant workers, had crossed into Nepal in recent days from India, believing their homeland to be safer. Nepal reported its second case of the coronavirus on Monday, a citizen who had recently returned from France. “The closing of the border crossings is meant to ensure that no one infected with the virus crosses over to Nepal from India and China,” said Surya Thapa, an aide to Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Asia:  *Pakistan   -   875  *India      -   471  *Sri Lanka  -    91   *Afghanistan  -    42  *Bangladesh  -    33  *Maldives     -    13   *Nepal       -     2  *Bhutan      -     2    ———————————-  TOTAL         - 1,529  https://www.mohfw.gov.in  hpb.health.gov.lk/en  http://covid.gov.pk  covid19.health.gov.mv/en" Claim: India shuts down flights, big cities as coronavirus toll rises in region.
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India on Monday announced a halt to domestic flights and said the majority of the country was under complete lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus as the number of people dying of the disease ticked up across densely populated South Asia.


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Paragraph: The lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of a dozen children against Gov. Jim Justice, the state Department of Health and Human Resources and other state officials. The 105-page complaint describes stories of neglect and harm done to foster children while under the department’s care. Many were in inadequate and dangerous placements, left without necessary services or forced to languish in foster care for years, including a 17-year-old suicidal boy who sleeps in a locked cell at a juvenile detention center. Filed by a Charleston law firm and nonprofit advocacy groups A Better Childhood and Disability Rights West Virginia, the lawsuit said the state’s child welfare system has “significant administrative problems that hinder its ability to operate effectively.” “For years, the state has ignored repeated recommendations about how to fix the damaging West Virginia foster care system,” Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of A Better Childhood, said in a statement. “Children are being sent to institutions, placed in foster homes without any services, and abandoned by the state.” New York-based A Better Childhood has filed similar lawsuits in several states. DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said changes were made to the child welfare system starting in 2013 and efforts have increased every year since. Crouch said the lawsuit will cost the state millions of dollars “and was filed by a company that has never contacted us to ask the question: ‘What are you doing to fix these problems?’ We welcome the opportunity to make our case in court.” The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier this year, West Virginia agreed to expand mental health services for children after a federal investigation found the state unnecessarily institutionalized kids with emotional or behavioral disorders. In the case of the 17-year-old boy, the lawsuit said he was physically abused by his family and has been under DHHR care since 2012. He lived in group homes and residential care centers before being sent to a juvenile detention center, where he sleeps on a mattress on a cement floor in a locked cell. He suffers from depression, has attempted suicide several times and will be homeless when he ages out of the system within the year, the lawsuit said. In September, the DHHR told lawmakers that 651 foster care children, mostly teen boys, have run away from group care settings or schools in less than a year. “Not only are we failing to provide federally mandated care, but we are also failing to prepare these children for what lies ahead and instead condemning many of them to a life of abuse and homelessness once they age out of foster care,” plaintiffs’ attorney Richard Walters said. The DHHR’s foster care ranks have swelled to about 6,900 children — an increase of more than 60% from the same time in 2015 — as the state grapples with the opioid addiction epidemic. West Virginia has by far the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation. The lawsuit said three siblings ages 2, 3 and 4 were placed under DHHR care because of drug-addicted parents, but the children have moved from one foster home to another “due to DHHR’s inability to appropriately develop case plans and to follow department procedures.” West Virginia can no longer use the opioid epidemic as an excuse, the lawsuit said. “The foster care crisis in West Virginia is not an issue that just arose in the last 4-5 years, it’s a systemic problem that has festered in the state for almost 20 years,” said Jeremiah Underhill, legal director of Disability Rights West Virginia. The lawsuit also says the state failed to maintain an adequate number of appropriate foster homes and resorts to quick placements among relatives without vetting or monitoring to ensure children’s safety. The reliance upon kinship caregivers has increased more than 30 percentage points over the past five years. State lawmakers have limited placement of a child in an out-of-state facility unless it’s closer to the child’s family or the child has a health issue that cannot be addressed by an in-state facility. Claim: Federal lawsuit targets West Virginia foster care system.
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The overwhelmed foster care system in opioid-ravaged West Virginia has failed to protect children, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.


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Paragraph: Negotiations are being held with several big drugs makers  as part of a wider drive to bring the cost of so-called  artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) down to the  level of the older, but now ineffective, chloroquinine  treatments. “I am very hopeful that this first stage, the negotiations,  will produce results,” Michel Kazatchkine, executive director  of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria told  reporters in Paris on Tuesday. The negotiations, part of a program called the Affordable  Medicines Facility - Malaria (AMFm), aim to persuade drugs  companies to cut the price of ACTs to all first-time buyers to  $1, the price currently charged to public sector buyers. The AMFm would then subsidize wholesalers 95 percent of the  cost, enabling them to sell the drugs at prices within reach of  people in some of the world’s poorest countries who may be  living on $1 or $2 a day. Malaria, a disease spread by mosquito-borne parasites, is  contracted by up to 500 million people every year, of whom more  than 1 million die, according to figures from the World Health  Organization. Chloroquinine, one of the former standard treatments for  the disease, has become ineffective in many countries as  resistance levels have grown. But its low cost — around 20 cents a dose compared with  $4-5 for ACTs — makes it far more affordable for people living  in poor African, Asian or Latin American countries where the  disease is most dangerous. Kazatchkine said the program would help drugs companies by  increasing the size of the market for ACTs and make it easier  to predict demand. “We are seeing the market a lot more clearly now,” he said. “Some firms were complaining that they had produced too much of  these medicines. We’re hoping an agreement will enable us to  regulate the flow better so that everyone benefits.”    Swiss drugs maker Novartis and France’s Sanofi are among  the Western companies that make the drug but the sector has  been shaken by the arrival of Chinese and Indian companies like  Cipla    and IPCA Laboratories. “The more firms there are producing these medicines, the  greater the level of competition will be and the more prices  will fall,” Kazatchkine said. He said a sharp increase in malaria funding over recent  years had improved prospects for controlling the disease but  said an extra $1 billion a year was needed. “We have the means to control and combat malaria,” he said. “It would be incomprehensible, shocking now that we are so  close to being able to reduce it really significantly if we  didn’t.” Claim: Malaria campaigners hopeful on drugs pricing deal.
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Anti-malaria campaigners are confident  that a deal can be reached with pharmaceuticals groups to cut  the cost of new drugs needed to fight a disease estimated to  kill more than 1 million people a year.