INDIA, March 29 -- Despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a nationwide lockdown in a battle against deadly coronavirus, a sea of migrant workers reached Anand Vihar Interstate Bus Terminal in Delhi hoping to reach back to their hometowns. Many of these workers had travelled on foot for several kilometeres after public transportation throughout the capital city was discontinued owing to the lockdown.

On being asked if the workers feared about the spread of COVID-19 and if being in crowd could make them vulnerable to the virus, most of them claimed corona was the least they feared. "What corona? My children are hungry, they have walked from Gurugram with me do you think corona is what I fear?," Yogesh Gangwar who is salesma...