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Coronavirus: Centre orders closure of state borders to stop movement of migrant workers

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NEW DELHI : The Centre on Sunday asked state governments and Union Territory administrations to effectively seal state and district borders to stop the movement of migrant workers, who will be put in 14-days quarantine at destinations for violating the lockdown.

During a video conference with chief secretaries and DGPs, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla asked them to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways as the lockdown continues. "There has been movement of migrant workers in some parts of the country.

Directions were issued that district and state borders should be effectively sealed," an official statement said. States were directed to ensure that there is no movement of

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