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As Covid-19 pandemic hits India’s daily-wage earners hard, some leave city for their home towns -Shoaib Daniyal, Supriya Sharma & Naresh Fernandes

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With authorities shutting down key institutions in several cities, sputtering economy hurts the most vulnerable.

On Friday afternoon, Bandra Terminus in suburban Mumbai seemed to be its usual bustling self. Scores of people lined up to buy themselves tickets to places in western and northern India. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the fact that many of the passengers had coverings around their faces: some wore construction masks, some had medical masks and some used colourful handkerchiefs.

In the crowd were several people who said they were leaving Mumbai because their work had dried up as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. On Friday, with Maharashtra reporting 52 cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ordered workplaces in Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Nagpur to remain closed till March 3.

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