The home ministry ordered state governments and local authorities to identify "containment zones", or areas that should remain under lockdown, as they continue to report high number of infections. Restrictions on international air travel and city train services have not been revoked but permission for intra-state travel was granted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address the nation on Sunday as his government wrestles to contain the pandemic despite imposing the world's longest lockdown. "Our country (is) besieged with problems amidst a vast population and limited resources," Modi said, adding that labourers and migrant workers had "undergone tremendous suffering" due to restrictions. Officials are nervous about the pandemic spreading through villages as millions of jobless migrant workers return home from the cities.

Source: bd News24 May 30, 2020 15:22 UTC