India Orders States to Quarantine Laborers As Infections Rise
Migrant workers and their families board buses during a lockdown in New Delhi, India, on March 28.
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India’s federal government has asked states to quarantine migrant workers for 14 days and prevent the movement of people across borders to contain the spread of the coronavirus across the South Asian nation.