Video showed three people in protective gear spraying a bleach disinfectant used on buses directly at a group of migrant workers who were returning home as part of a national lockdown in India
New Delhi The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has sparked controversy after migrant workers, returning home during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, were doused in bleach disinfectant used to sanitize buses.
Video showed three people, dressed in protective gear, spraying the liquid directly on a group of Indian workers as they sat on the ground in the northern city of Bareilly. Social distancing is a privilege of the middle class. For India's slum dwellers, it will be impossibleAshok Gautam, a senior officer in charge of Covid-19 operations in Uttar Pradesh, told CNN as many as 5,000 people have been"publicly sprayed" when they arrived before they were allowed to disperse.
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