Indian migrant workers have been sprayed with disinfectant after returning to their home state on a crowded bus as people to adapt to the second week of a hastily-announced nationwide lockdown. The footage of arriving workers being sprayed was taken at Bareilly bus stand over the weekend, India's NDTV reported. Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, health workers dressed in protection suits sprayed disinfectant on a group of migrant workers who were also trying to make the journey home to their villages, local television showed. Nitish Kumar, the top government official in the district, later said health workers had been ordered to disinfect buses being used by the local authorities but in their zeal they had also turned their hoses onto migrant workers.

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2020 12:47 UTC