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India Coronavirus dispatch: Link between Mumbai's slums and Covid spread

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A health worker collects a nasal sample from a child for COVID-19 test during the total lockdown imposed by the state government due to surge in Covid-19 cases, in Patna on Monday. Photo: ANI
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A health worker collects a nasal sample from a child for COVID-19 test during the total lockdown imposed by the state government due to surge in Covid-19 cases, in Patna on Monday. Photo: ANI

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi
Managing Covid-19
 
How strong is the link between Mumbai’s slums and the spread of the coronavirus? But while densification was a way to solve other problems of the city earlier, now density itself is being seen as a problem. Slums are being blamed for being too dense. The proposed solution, paradoxically, remains identical: high-density high-rise slum-redevelopment. Read more here
 
Why community transmission no longer matters at this stage: Covid-19 disease is present in every state and Union Territory, except Lakshadweep. Twenty-seven of these have seen more than 1,000 people getting infected till now. Even Andaman and Nicobar
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