'I had no other option.' A 15-year-old girl in India rode a bicycle hundreds of miles with her disabled father on the back to return home. Her father, a migrant worker, had lost his job as an auto rickshaw driver in a New Delhi because of the coronavirus.
This Saturday, May 23, 2020, photo provided by sister Pinky Baby shows Jyoti Kumari 15, with her father at their home in Darbhanga district in Bihar state, India. Kumari rode a bicycle hundreds of miles with her father riding pillion to escape the constraints of a coronavirus lockdown in India that appears to have staved off an unmanageable spike in coronavirus cases but that triggered an exodus of migrant workers and crippled the economy.
“I had no other option,” she said Sunday. “We wouldn’t have survived if I hadn’t cycled to my village.” So she decided to buy a bicycle and, like thousands of other Indian migrant workers have done since March, make her way home. Upon their arrival, village officials placed Kumari’s father in a quarantine center, a policy many state and local governments in India have implemented to try to keep returning migrants from spreading the coronavirus. They are now all quarantining at home.
India’s expansive railway system, the country’s lifeline, was closed to passenger service as part of the lockdown. Buses, planes and taxis were also banned. But earlier this month, the government resumed limited train travel for migrants wishing to return home.
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