Amid lockdown, exodus of migrant workers choke Delhi-UP border

Thousands of migrant workers and daily wage workers crossed over to Uttar Pradesh and many others waited to do so, desperate to return to their distant villages. At the Ghazipur border, they huddled close together, only some with masks -- aware of the coronavirus threat that had led to an unprecedented 21-day lockdown of the country and taken away their jobs, but helpless to do anything about combating the infection.