Bhopal, May 6 (PTI) A special train carrying 1,030 labourers who were stranded in Telangana due to lockdown back to Madhya Pradesh reached the Habibganj Railway Station here on Wednesday night.

The train which had departed from Hyderabad on Tuesday night, reached Bhopal at 8 pm, said a district official.

All the passengers were being screened, and the administration also provided them food and water, he said.

These migrants belong to 33 districts of Madhya Pradesh including Bhopal. After screening, they will be sent to their home districts, the official said.

On May 2, a special train had carried 347 stranded migrants back to Madhya Pradesh from Nashik in Maharashtra. PTI ADU MAS KRK KRK 05062218 NNNN the idea "was not accepted positively" within Red Bull and was abandoned.

It wasn't immediately clear if by "four Formula One drivers" Marko meant Red Bull's two drivers and two reserves, or the two drivers from sister team Alpha Tauri.

Marko praised Red Bull driver Max Verstappen for throwing himself into the world of online racing to stay sharp, and said the drivers were focusing on their fitness.

"Max Verstappen is having more races than in a regular season," Marko said. "If we come to a season with 15 or 18 races, it will be very hard and there won't be a chance to rebuild the conditioning."

The first eight races of the season have been canceled or postponed, leaving the Canadian Grand Prix in June as the first event still on the schedule. That could be followed by a packed string of scheduled and rearranged races.

The season-opening Australian GP was canceled.

The 76-year-old Marko, who raced in F1 in the 1970s, acknowledged he could be at risk for COVID-19.

"I belong to the high risk group but I'm not frightened. I respect it," he said. Marko added he had what he thought was a "heavy cold" in February but now thinks it could have been coronavirus symptoms. (AP)

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