Around 77,000 migrant workers sent home: Ghaziabad admin

Around 77,000 migrant workers were sent home in over 1,500 buses, the Ghaziabad administration has said.

The district administration here on Tuesday said around 77,000 migrant workers were sent home in over 1,500 buses. Though the workers had started returning home after a rise in coronavirus cases, their number swelled after the Delhi government imposed a week-long lockdown on Monday, an official said. According to District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey, around 77,000 workers were sent to their destinations in 1,537 buses.