A tribal lockdown ritual has staged a comeback in Arunachal Pradesh, the State geographically closest to China’s Hubei province where the COVID-19outbreak began. Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district ceremonially entered the Arr-Rinam phase on March 26, 2020 . Arr-Rinam is the Galo equivalent of lockdown imposed by consensus for 48 hours whenever an epidemic strikes.