Coronavirus: Indian migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant amid mass exodus from cities

Video footage shows Indian health workers spraying disinfectant on a group of migrant workers, amid fears that a large scale movement of people from cities to the countryside risks spreading the coronavirus widely. The prime minister, Narendra Modi, has ordered the country’s 1.3 billion people to remain indoors until 15 April, saying that was the only hope to stop the pandemic. But the order has left millions of impoverished Indians jobless and hungry, prompting a mass exodus from cities to the countryside Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Divided Cities: Delhi’s climate apartheid ► Divided Delhi under lockdown: ’If coronavirus doesn’t kill me, hunger will’ ► Coronavirus world news - live ► Support the Guardian ► Today in Focus podcast ► The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► Owen Jones talks ► Guardian Football ► Guardian Sport ► Guardian Culture ►