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For many Indians in lockdown, the biggest concern isn't coronavirus; it's hunger

MUMBAI, India - The biggest lockdown in human history - 1.3 billion Indians ordered to stay home to curb the spread of the coronavirus - has unleashed chaos across the country as stranded migrant workers sleep in city streets, police beat curfew-breakers, fruits and vegetables rot in markets, and masses of informal laborers find their livelihoods wiped out.

The first two days of the lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have thrown the lives of some of India's poorest people into disarray. A total shutdown of trains and buses has prevented countless migrant workers from returning to their villages, forcing them into makeshift shelters or open fields where they are subsisting on

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