Exodus of Workers Reveals the Limits of India’s Coronavirus Lockdown

NEW DELHI—Days following India declared a nationwide lockdown to sluggish the unfold of the coronavirus, hundreds of hundreds of out-of-operate migrant laborers began going for walks to houses often hundreds of miles away and jammed jointly waiting around for rides in packed buses.

India closed its railway network practically a week back with practically no detect, chopping off the principal way millions of laborers from the countryside and smaller sized towns go back again and forth in between main metropolitan areas. Extended-haul bus services has also been mostly stopped and taxis…