Photos: A lockdown, and a long journey home

Migrant workers walk with their children as they look out for transport to return to their villages, after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, March 25, 2020. 

Thousands of migrant labour workers stranded in Delhi start walking to reach their home in different parts of the country during the complete lockdown amid the outbreak of Corona virus pandemic in New Delhi, India on March 26, 2020. India currently under complete lockdown which closed down all the transport of the country to curb the Corona virus pandemic which records 13 deaths and more than 650 positive cases across India. 

Migrant workers head home on an animal cart during Day 5 of the 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed by PM Narendra Modi to curb the spread of coronavirus, at NH9 road, on March 29, 2020 in Ghaziabad, India. 

A migrant worker rides a cart with his family on a highway as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, March 27, 2020. 

A Delhi police personnel disperse homeless people waiting to collect food at a government-run Night Shelter at Yamuna Pushta near Nigambodh Ghat, during the second day of national lockdown imposed by PM Narendra Modi to curb the spread of coronavirus on March 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India.  

Migrant workers and their families board a truck in Ahmedabad to return to their villages after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of Covid-19, March 25, 2020. 

A huge rush of migrant workers who had been marching to their homes, seen at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal on day 4 of the nationwide lockdown.

An aerial view of Lal Kuan bus stand where a wave of migrant workers was seen following Uttar Pradesh governments call to arrange buses for the workers returning to their native state, on Day 4 of the 21 day nationwide lockdown -- to check the spread of coronavirus, on March 28, 2020 in Ghaziabad, India. 

People travel in a crowded bus to return to their cities and villages before the start of the lockdown by West Bengal state government to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India March 23, 2020.

Migrant workers ask for eatables inside a bus to leave for their villages outside Allahabad bus station, during a Government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19, on March 29, 2020. 

Migrant workers seen crowded inside a bus bound to their native state at Kaushambi Roadways Bus Stand on Day 4 of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, on March 28, 2020 in New Delhi, India.

Crowds of Indian migrant workers wait to board buses to return to their native villages as a nationwide lockdown continues to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) on March 28, 2020, in Ghaziabad. The lockdown has already disproportionately hurt marginalized communities due to loss of livelihood and lack of food, shelter, health, and other basic needs. Tens of thousands of out-of-work migrant workers are stranded, with rail and bus services shut down. 

Migrant workers try to board a goods truck bound to their native state during Day 4 of the 21 day nationwide lockdown, defeating the lockdown to enable social distancingat Lal Kuan bus stand, on March 28, 2020 in Ghaziabad, India.