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What Punjab’s covid-19 crisis teaches us about mass migration during a pandemic

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Punjab’s initiative to facilitate return of 3,000 pilgrims from Nanded gurudwara has led to its steepest spike in covid cases.

Officials warn of similar community transmission as migrants return to their hometowns In the third week of March, PK, a homemaker from Amritsar, Punjab, boarded a train with six members of her family to visit the Hazur Sahib gurdwara in Nanded, Maharashtra.

It was her first time at the shrine, counted among the five holy takhts (spiritual centres) of Sikhism. PK had planned on staying for a week.

She had no idea she would end up staying a month longer. From 25 March, the Union government imposed a nationwide lockdown to stem the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

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