NEW DELHI: Millions of people in rural India will be allowed back to work next week despite a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the government said Wednesday (Apr 15), as it conceded the hardships of shutting its vital farming economy were too great.
Restrictions on movement in the world's second-most populous nation of 1.3 billion people - put in place in late March - have hit the poorest the hardest, including rural migrant workers and other labourers.