6 As stated above, we are concerned in these writ petitions mainly with the welfare of the migrant labourers. The circular issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 29.03.2020 has been implemented by the various State Governments/Union Territories. The mass migration has stopped according to Union of India. All the migrant labourers who were on the road have been shifted to relief camps/shelter homes which are set up at various points in each State/Union Territory. The directions issued by the Union of India and the State Governments/Union Territories to provide all basic amenities migrants like are food, being drinking complied water, with by medicines, the etc. concerned to the District Collectors/Magistrates. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, World Health Organisation (WHO), recently stated as under: “We are not just fighting an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.” The migration of large number of labourers working in the cities was triggered by panic created by fake news that the lock down would continue for more than three months. Such panic driven migration has caused untold suffering to those who believed and acted on such news. In fact, some have lost their lives in the

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