MUMBAI, April 6 — Amidst the clogged drains and overflowing garbage dumps of Mumbai’s Dharavi — one of Asia’s largest slums — coronavirus fears are growing, and residents say they are powerless to stop the spread of the disease. The warren of narrow alleys in India’s financial capital...
Monday, 06 Apr 2020 10:41 PM MYT
The warren of narrow alleys in India’s financial capital — made famous by the 2008 Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” — is home to around a million people, many of whom work as security guards or domestic workers in upmarket neighbourhoods nearby. The glaring lack of proper infrastructure forces many residents to use public bathrooms, making the area a fertile ground for COVID19 to spread.
But “survival in Dharavi is based on being able to live that close. If everyone asked for six feet distance we would need to have an area three times the size of Dharavi”, he told AFP. “What can we do? We are sanitising our houses while being locked inside,” said Abdul Kadir, who works at a provisions store.Sanitation is dire in the neighbourhood, whose residents have long criticised the government for failing to improve infrastructure.
Police have erected barricades near the areas where the victims lived or worked, to prevent outsiders from entering.
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