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“There was no other option,” he said Sunday. “If we had not left, we would not have survived.”
Kumari said that she and her father would have starved to death in the Gurugram suburb of New Delhi because the quarantine left them with no income.
After the accident, her father stopped walking. He made a living driving a rickshaw. However, with the introduction of the travel ban, he has become one of the millions of unemployed. Their landlord demanded rent and threatened to evict them.
So the girl decided to buy a bicycle and, as many Indian workers have been doing since March, they leave.
Kumari drove for 10 days, sitting with his father in the trunk. The weather was warm, they were only alive with the water and food that strangers gave them. Only once Kumari was able to rest his feet, then they were transported by truck.
The girl arrived in her Darbhanga village with her father, where Kumari’s mother and brother-in-law lived, who left the capital region on March 25. after quarantine
An eighth-grade student, Kumari, went to Gurugram in January to care for his father. On Sunday, she said she is still tired after a long journey.
“It just caught our eye then. It was very hot, but we had no choice. There was one goal in mind: to get home, ”said the teenager.
Jyoti Kumari and her family
Upon arrival, Kumari’s father was placed in a quarantine center, a measure taken in many places in India to prevent visitors from spreading the infection. Currently, the father and daughter are in quarantine, at home.
In India, quarantine takes two months. Apparently, this measure prevented a sudden outbreak of the disease, the country had time to prepare drugs and mobilize medical forces. In India, 125,102 coronavirus cases and 3,867 deaths were confirmed.
The quarantine has led to a humanitarian crisis, with thousands of poor people returning to their villages on foot, carrying the elderly on their backs and suitcases with young children. Many people died on the way: from hunger, they were killed or crushed by trains and trucks.
Passenger trains stopped during the quarantine in India. Bus, plane and taxi traffic also stopped. In early May, the government renewed some of the fat because migrants wanted to return home.
The Indian economy, which is mainly made up of informal work, has been hard hit by the quarantine. In recent weeks, quarantine conditions have been relaxed to allow people to return to work.
The trip to Kumari caught the attention of the Indian Cycling Federation. The organization, which is preparing teams for the Olympic Games, offered the girl a train to come to New Delhi and participate in the selection in June. The trip was also seen in Washington. Ivanka, the daughter of Donald Trump, described the teenager’s behavior on Twitter as “a beautiful feat of resistance and love.”
Kumari said the recognition made her happy, but that it brought her father not to fame. “It was a desperate decision,” he said.
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