India has so far recorded more than 4,000 cases of the new coronavirus. The strict quarantine measures have, however, created another problem: widespread hunger, Scroll.in reports.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that millions of poor rural Indians were working in cities when the lockdown was announced and all public transport shut down, leaving them stranded far from home often with no food, money or shelter.

Charities running helplines for stranded migrant workers say most of the calls they receive now are desperate pleas for food. Among those who called the helpline run by Jan Sahas, a non-profit organisation, was construction worker Bikram Singh Lodi, who was stranded in Northern India with his wife and two children.

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