Covid-19

(c) Bhuvan Bagga/AFP via Getty Images Context On March 11, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. On 25 March, in an effort to contain the epidemic and avert a looming crisis, the Government of India introduced a nationwide lockdown. Stringent public health protection measures were enacted for the public good, but engendered difficult circumstances for informal sector, short term, and day labourers, who typically have few economic reserves and no job security. With the s