COVID lockdown fear: Migrant workers leave Gurugram
News | Apr 18, 2021, 10:40 PM ISTAs India continues to battle with second wave of COVID, several migrant workers in Gurugram were seen leaving for their native places due to COVID lockdown fear.
As India continues to battle with second wave of COVID, several migrant workers in Gurugram were seen leaving for their native places due to COVID lockdown fear.
Soon after Maharashtra government announced strict restrictions including Section 144 to contain COVID-19 spread from April 14, migrant workers started to return to their hometowns.
Migrant workers alleged lack of adequate facilities at a quarantine centre in Phansidewa area of Darjeeling.
Migrant workers staged a protest at Bypass road in Amritsar after claiming that the train they were supposed to board to return to their hometowns got cancelled at last moment.
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The Union Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal on May 21 said that the West Bengal Government not actively cooperated with Railways Ministry to let migrant workers reached their home via special trains amid the coronavirus uncertainty.
The foremost norm to combat COVID-19 pandemic-social distancing- gone for a toss in Tamil Nadu, where migrant workers gathered in large numbers in Coimbatore's Sundarapuram to collect 'shramik special' train passes to return to their hometowns.
A group of migrant workers was seen walking on foot in Madhya Pradesh amid coronavirus pandemic.
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