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Thousands At Delhi Bus Station Amid COVID-19 Risk, Wait For Ride Home -Chandrashekar Srinivasan

-NDTV/ Inputs from ANI

With all public transport stopped, many left without food, shelter and income had been forced to undertake journeys for hundreds of kilometres on foot

New Delhi: Amid the chaos, fear and uncertainty spreading across the country because of the COVID-19 outbreak, a distressing narrative emerged from Delhi on Saturday, when thousands of migrant workers, left without jobs, shelter or money after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 21-day nationwide lockdown, crowded into bus terminals around the national capital trying desperately to return to hometowns and villages across the border in Uttar Pradesh.

The centre's "total lockdown", meant to halt the spread of a highly infectious novel coronavirus that transmits rapidly in crowded spaces, had suspended all interstate bus and railway services, leaving migrants and their young families no option but to walk hundreds of kilometres foot in searing heat.

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