In absence of work, migrant workers have been forced to return to their homes. Many of them, accompanied by large families, are forced to travel on foot due to closure of public transport as part of the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown.
The coronavirus pandemic will cause a global recession in 2020 that could be worse than the one triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, but world economic output should recover in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.