Chasing the virus: How India's largest slum beat back a pandemicMumbai's Dharavi slum offers a rare glimmer of hope, as new infections shrink thanks to an aggressive strategy of 'chasing' the virus. But three months on, Mumbai's Dharavi offers a rare glimmer of hope with new infections shrinking, thanks to an aggressive strategy that focused on "chasing the virus, instead of waiting for disaster", according to city official Kiran Dighavkar. Each day, medical workers set up a "fever camp" in a different part of the slum, so residents could be screened for symptoms and tested for coronavirus if needed. - 'No escape next time' -With Mumbai and Delhi struggling to accommodate coronavirus patients as India's cases surge past half a million officials are also wary of celebrating too soon. "I felt like Dharavi would be destroyed, and nothing would be left," he told AFP, describing the near impossibility of avoiding infection in the slum.

Source: Bangkok Post July 01, 2020 04:07 UTC