Fighting Covid in Mumbai
By: Chahal, Iqbal Singh
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BookPublisher: The Journal of Governance Description: 25, Jul, 2022: p.63-68.
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The Journal of GovernanceSummary: I n the last week of April 2020, there was rapid spread of Covid virus in the slums of Mumbai, especially Dharavi, Govandi and Deonar. A large number of people started dying on account of Covid due to limited testing facilities available and even more limited number of Covid beds available in the city of Mumbai. Mumbai, the financial capital of India was on fire with Covid. There were several cases of people dying and their dead bodies were found on the streets and road dividers. One of the biggest slums of Asia, viz. Dharavi with a population of 8,00,000 was visibly out of control. There were hardly 3743 Covid beds available in city of Mumbai and approximately 1500 people were getting positive every day. Social media was full of videos depicting, dead bodies on the road; more than one patient lying on many hospital beds, dead bodies kept on the hospital beds next to alive patient on the bed etc. – Reproduced
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I n the last week of April 2020, there was rapid spread of Covid virus in the slums of Mumbai, especially Dharavi, Govandi and Deonar. A large number of people started dying on account of Covid due to limited testing facilities available and even more limited number of Covid beds available in the city of Mumbai. Mumbai, the financial capital of India was on fire with Covid. There were several cases of people dying and their dead bodies were found on the streets and road dividers. One of the biggest slums of Asia, viz. Dharavi with a population of 8,00,000 was visibly out of control. There were hardly 3743 Covid beds available in city of Mumbai and approximately 1500 people were getting positive every day. Social media was full of videos depicting, dead bodies on the road; more than one patient lying on many hospital beds, dead bodies kept on the hospital beds next to alive patient on the bed etc. – Reproduced
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