Uttar Pradesh Government will ensure the safe, secure, and dignified return of those migrant workers who are stranded at the border areas of the state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered officials from Lucknow office, to make arrangements for food, shelter, and medical screening for migrant workers at all border areas. The process has been initiated in many districts already.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said that no migrant worker will have to travel in trucks, two wheelers or by foot in state and ordered officials to make arrangement of buses for them so that they can reach their destinations.

Officials of the transport department will ensure the sanitization of buses and the availability of sanitizer in them. No charge will be taken from any migrant worker for anything. Arrangement of Food and drinking water will be insured at all toll plazas along with the highways and major intersections.

Additional Chief Secretary home Avnish Awasthi said that police and transport officials will do intense patrolling in the night to prevent any migrant worker to travel in a truck or on foot. Meanwhile, a special flight from London carrying 82 Indians under Vande Bharat Mission today arrived at Varanasi Airport.

Meanwhile, the State Government has asked details of one thousand buses and their staff from Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra so that the buses can be used to transport the migrant workers. Priyanka has written a letter to Chief Minister and offered 1,000 buses to transport the standard of my migrant workers two days back.

Meanwhile, on the second consecutive day yesterday, Maharashtra reported more than 2,000 COVID-19 cases. In the last 24 hours as many as 2,033 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the state taking the tally to 35,058.

While 51 more patients died raising the death toll to 1,249. State Capital Mumbai reported 1,185 fresh COVID-19 cases and 23 more deaths. With this, the total case count has reached 21,152 and the fatalities to 757 in Mumbai.

In another development, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the people of the state to have patience especially those who want to return from cities to their native places in rural Maharashtra. While addressing the state through social media, he cautioned the people not to carry the infection to rural Maharashtra. He underlined the importance of keeping the green zones intact without adding any infection from local migrants. He also assured that things will change very soon but the discipline has to be maintained.

As per the AIR report, Maharashtra CM Thackeray yesterday said that the government is working hard to maintain a balance between the lockdown measures and restarting the industrial activities. He said that the government had given permission to 70 thousand industries to start their activities out of which 50 thousand units have started and almost 5 lakh workers are engaged in it. He also urged the sons of the soil to come forward to fill in the gap which is there due to the migration of workers to their native places.

Meanwhile, the Mumbai civic body has issued a revised protocol for sealing of buildings, according to which either the entire building or a floor can be sealed depending upon the local situation, area of the building concerned, and the number of cases.

It also said that positive symptomatic patients can be shifted to Dedicated CoVID Health Center or Dedicated COVID Hospital, private or public facility as per the beds available and affordability of the patient. Meanwhile, the positive asymptomatic patients can be home quarantined if adequate facilities are available in the house and with a self-declaration made by the patient concerned