Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Coronavirus: Indian migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant amid mass exodus from cities



Video footage shows Indian health workers spraying disinfectant on a group of migrant workers, amid fears that a large scale movement of people from cities to rural areas risks spreading the coronavirus widely. The prime minister, Narendra Modi, has ordered the country's 1.3 billion people to remain indoors until 15 April, saying that was the only hope to stop the pandemic. 
But the order has left millions of impoverished Indians jobless and hungry, prompting a mass exodus from cities to villages

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