Amid extended lockdown, large number of Nepali migrant workers enter home from India
BIRATNAGAR, March 30 -- Although the government has suspended land border crossings with India to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Nepali nationals mostly migrant workers have been defying this restriction and entering the eastern districts of Nepal.
Local residents have expressed serious concern over the continuous entry of fellow countrymen from India saying that it has posed huge risk of coronavirus transmission to various districts of Province 1.
The Nepali nationals entered the country almost every day after the government started enforcing the week-long lockdown on March 24 suspending the border crossings with the southern neighbor. Although the major land border crossings remained closed in this period, most of the people enter...
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