City health experts have a word of caution for migrant labourers who are forced to walk home amid the lockdown. They have advised them to drop their plan of either walking or cycling kilometres to reach their hometown as the physical strain could cause temporary to permanent damages to their muscles, bones, veins and cartilages.

Since the implementation of the COVID-19 lockdown, thousands of workers opted to walk home in the absence of a job and consequently money to feed themselves and their family.