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Mumbai washes its hands of lakhs, do’s & don’ts don’t matter here -Kavitha Iyer

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published Published on Mar 19, 2020   modified Modified on Mar 20, 2020

-The Indian Express

While Maharashtra has seen 45 cases of infections and a death from coronavirus, there has been no evidence of community transmission. But in slums such as these, with population densities among the highest anywhere in the world, social distancing is an impossibility.

Mumbai: Urmila Maurya, in her early thirties and a mother of three, can put into practice none of the protective measures against COVID-19 that are advised by the World Health Organisation. The family of five lives in a 10×10 ft room in Janata Nagar, at the farthest edge of Mandala, a slum of about 4,000 shanties. “Wash our hands frequently?” she says, only a little incredulous. “Sometimes I have to skip bathing to save water for cooking.”

Mandala is a creek-side slum sprawl along Mumbai’s eastern suburbs, but its conditions are almost exactly the same as those in dozens of other slum colonies across the city. In each of these colonies, the measures that other Mumbaikars are putting in place are entirely impractical.

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The Indian Express, 19 March, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/coronavirus/mumbai-slums-coronavirus-6321068/?fbclid=IwAR2eBG4pQRbLr5m3cdtTA4WWt2SycYnWNP29Le25j90n5i9xtOeMx79VO3w


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