Barricaded, warned of quarantine: Migrant workers to be stopped at borders

States and union territories (UT)s have to ensure that people don't move across cities and on highways.

States and union territories (UT) must barricade their borders to stop thousands of migrant workers from travelling to their homes during a three-week lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the centre said on Sunday. People who break the lockdown to travel will be quarantined for 14 days, it said.

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, during a video conference, asked chief secretaries and police chiefs to ensure that migrant workers are paid wages and they got food and shelter at their workplaces, news agencies PTI and ANI reported.

"There has been movement of migrant