migrant workers

Migrant workers who managed to reach home are now homeless, there is apprehension of water borne diseases and scare of a rise in Covid cases because social distancing is now a luxury.
On Thursday, of the 776 cases Tamil Nadu reported, Chennai counted for 567, taking the capitals total confirmed cases to 8,795.
"The state will be facing a dangerous situation if the number of positive cases increases considerably, CM Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday.
The migrants workers were traveling from Solapur to Nagpur to catch a train to their home state Jharkhand.
The news of migrant workers dying in road accidents have become an everyday affair amid the Covid-19 lockdown.
The state government said that Central government orders for lockdown 4.0 will be followed strictly as the number of active cases in West Bengal reached 1,480 on Sunday.
At least 29 others were injured in these accidents which took place in Sagar, Guna, and Barwani districts, police said.
Either the government is unable to see anything or it is seeing everything and is acting as if it does not know, the Congress general secretary in-charge of UP East said.
36 others were injured when a trailer truck carrying them collided with another truck in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
Lakhs of workers are thronging railway stations without booking confirmations as they struggle with long waiting lists and messages written in Punjabi.