India's stranded army of workers flees home

With no way to earn a living amid India's coronavirus clampdown, thousands of migrants workers packed into bus stations in New Delhi over the weekend, in a desperate attempt to get home.

India has around 1,000 reported cases and more than two dozen deaths, but one projection warns more than 100,000 could be infected by mid-May, putting India's creaky health system under severe strain.

To stem the disease's spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked India's 1.3 billion population to stay at home in the world's biggest lockdown.

But for the country's estimated 120 million migrant laborers, that means work has dried up.

Without wages to pay for food or rent, they are trying to get home - squeezing together in crowds and queues,, despite the infectious nature of COVID-19, as they try to board buses out of the city.

But for some even the bus is out of reach.

This worker says he has 100 to 200 rupees, or a couple of dollars, in his pocket and that reaching his village is going to be a problem.

This family says they have a small child and no food and that they will be walking to Budaun - 120 miles away.