Irrfan Khan supports Friday fast to show solidarity towards migrant workers on April 10

With people doing everything y can to help poor, migrant workers, suffering from hunger, Irrfan Khan on Thursday took to his Twitter handle to show support for daily w workers who are worst hit amid Coronavirus crisis. Tagging Gram Seva Sangh, Irrfan wrote that he will be supporting 'Friday Fast' on April 10 — a 12-hour fast from 6am to 6 pm — for cause of migrant labourers.

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Sacred Games actor Rajshri Deshpande also showed support and reacted to Irrfan's post.

" Fasting to dedicate ir one day ration to give it to all needy ones. re is pressure on anyone to join us in tomorrow’s fasting. amount of food we have in a day can feed many of m over many days. You can Fast to regenerate your immune system too," she wrote.

Health Ministry on Wednesday called for providing social protection to migrant workers, saying y are prone to social, psychological and emotional trauma in lockdown situations. Immediate concerns faced by such migrant workers relate to food, shelter, healthcare, fear of getting infected or spreading infection, loss of ws, concerns about family, anxiety and fear. 

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"Sometimes, y also face harassment and negative reactions of local community. All this calls for strong social protection," ministry said in a document. 

As part of such support, ministry listed some measures which include treating every migrant worker with dignity, respect, empathy, and compassion, recognising specific and varied needs for each person/family and helping m to ackwledge that this is an unusual situation of uncertainty and reassure m that situation is transient and t going to last long.