Coronavirus: Dharavi in Mumbai Has Not Reported COVID-19 Cases for the First Time Since Outbreak
Bombay:
Not a single case of COVID-19 has been reported in Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, for the first time since the pandemic hit India earlier this year.
Health workers and researchers have given their full attention to the situation in Dharavi, as the hundreds of shacks are wall-to-wall, and where people mostly use community toilets, as social distancing is a luxury in one. of the most densely populated slums in the world. .
COVID-19 in Dharavi would have spread rapidly otherwise, but thanks to good intervention, isolation and patient testing, authorities have managed to keep Dharavi away from a possible spike in infection, say workers at Health.
On July 26, only two cases of COVID-19 were reported in Dharavi. However, months later the number rose again, until today, when not a single new case was reported.
When cases were reduced to just two in one day, Dharavi’s success in flattening the curve or moving from being a coronavirus cluster to a successful containment model had received praise from around the world. Even the World Health Organization had praised Dharavi in his fight against the coronavirus.
Applying a strict lockdown and blocking the movement of residents except for essential services appeared to have paid off, as Dharavi had been consistently reporting relatively low COVID-19 numbers in a single day until it was not reported. a single case.
Maharashtra reported 3,580 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 19.51 lakh. The virus has killed more than 49,000 in the state.
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