In India, the recent coronavirus outbreak has hit our society in multiple ways. We are 1.37 billion people, most of us live too close together and our social fabric is such that public hygiene has never been much of a priority, so in the face of this new pandemic, both social distancing and the other measures the prevention demands like washing hands frequently, sanitizing surfaces or keeping public places less crowded are options logistically almost impossible for India other than via a complete lockdown.
So, we are in a complete lockdown that started end of March. Thousands of our unorganized workers have been crowding in various cities in their attempts to go back home as there is fear, disinformation and lack of resources for them where
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