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Covid-19 in India: Dharavi’s success story
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3264 (Published 25 August 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3264
- Ashutosh Kumar, assistant professor1 2,
- Vikas Pareek, junior research scientist1 3,
- Ravi K Narayan, senior resident doctor1 2,
- Kamla Kant, assistant professor1 4,
- Cheena Kapoor, freelance journalist1
- 1Etiologically Elusive Disorders Research Network, New Delhi, India
- 2Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India
- 3National Brain Research Center, Manesar, Haryana, India
- 4Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, India
- drashutoshkumar{at}aiimspatna.org
Epidemics are supposed to hit urban areas with dense populations and poor socioeconomic conditions—slums—hardest.1 Globally, covid-19 is following this pattern. We have, however, seen a rare exception in Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Dharavi has the dubious honour of being Asia’s largest slum. It has an area of 2.1 km2 and a …
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