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The relatives of the deceased claimed that the men were addicted to alcohol and in its absence they drank sanitiser to quench their addiction

"We have to save the country from lockdown", PM Modi said, urging states to focus on micro containment zone instead

The districts with more than than 500 active cases will have night curfew from 8 pm to 7 am, the CM said.

The Uttar Pradesh government had yesterday refused to implement High Court-ordered lockdown in 5 cities, emphasising that the livelihood of the poor needs to be saved.

While speaking on the matter, migrant labourers lamented, "We're daily wagers, CM should have given us some time before announcing it. It takes us Rs 200 to reach home, but they're charging Rs 3,000-4,000 now, how will we go home?"

Allahabad HC issued a list of strict restrictions in five UP cities Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, and Gorakhpur till April 26

Migrant labourers in Delhi are leaving the city for their native places as Arvind Kejriwal announced a strict 6-day curfew to control the spread of the coronavirus

The weeklong curfew will begin tonight 10 PM till April 26 (Monday) in view of the rising Covid-19 cases in Delhi.

India is going through second wave of COVID-19, with Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka being worst effected

Migrant workers fleeing the Section 144 imposition in Maharashtra accuse the state police of extorting them