When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world's biggest lockdown due to COVID-19, he gave the nation of 1.3 billion people only four hours' notice, unleashing one of the biggest mass migrations in his nation's history and leaving the poor in cities with no means of earning an income or feeding their families. Reporter Emma Alberici tells the story of how the poorest of Indians are coping with this nation wide shut down, probing if the consequences of the lockdown are worse than the disease.

Originally released by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2020. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 30, 2022.