Migrant workers who arrive in Bihar will be quarantined for 14 days: Bihar Govt

Amid massive migrant exodus in rth India due to COVID-19 lockdown, Bihar Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Saturday revealed that migrant workers coming back from neighbouring states to Bihar will be kept in quarantine for 14 days. As three-week lockdown began in country, migrant workers, especially from Bihar, UP and West Bengal, in absence of transport facilities, started a home-bound walk. This came despite Government of India and state government's numerous vice to avoid travel and stay put at current location.

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"Migrant workers coming back from neighbouring states to Bihar will be kept in quarantine in relief centres at state borders, where y will be provided food and or essential amenities. y will be kept here for 14 days," Jha said to news  ncy ANI. 

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Soon after, re was ar Coronavirus health scare after UP and Delhi governments arranged buses to send migrant families home, leing to large crowds of people at Delhi's Anand Vihar Bus terminal, raising risk of COVID 19 spre. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has urged UP and Delhi Governments to t ship off migrants from Bihar during health scare. He has also anunced that his government will coordinate with or states and bear expenses of migrant workers, who might have been stranded re owing to three-week-long nationwide lockdown. 

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Speaking to Republic TV, Nitish Kumar said, " buses should be allowed to carry any passenger from any state, else COVID-19 will spre and it will be a complete violation of lockdown. People should remain where y are and respective state governments should make arrangements for ir stay and food. Else people will congregate in large numbers to get back to ir native place and create a law and order situation."

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(With ncy Inputs)