In Pictures: India's poor struggle amid coronavirus lockdown
Migrant workers crowd up outside a bus station as they wait to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus, in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi. ANUSHREE FADNAVIS/REUTERS
The workers started fleeing New Delhi after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown, which effectively put millions of Indians living off daily earnings out of work. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
Many carried belongings in plastic bags normally used for cement, while women in saris carried infants on their hips. DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS
A family of a migrant worker sits along a highway as they wait for a bus to return to their village. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
The unprecedented lockdown has stung millions of poor in the world's second-most populous country. ANUSHREE FADNAVIS/REUTERS
A migrant worker rides a cart with his family on a highway as they return to their villages, during the 21-day nationwide lockdown. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
Daily wage workers and homeless people being served food inside a government-run night shelter in New Delhi. ANUSHREE FADNAVIS/REUTERS
Indian health officials have confirmed 979 cases of the coronavirus, including 25 deaths. Experts said local spreading is inevitable in a country where tens of millions of people live in dense urban areas in cramped conditions with irregular access to clean water. ALTAF QADRI/AP PHOTO
India went under the world's biggest lockdown on March 25, with nearly 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile healthcare system. MANISH SWARUP/AP PHOTO
A migrant worker carrying a fan walks along a road as he leaves India's capital for his home during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown. SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP