How Asia’s biggest slum contained the coronavirus - BBC News
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Not surprisingly Dharavi is a place where migrant low-cost skilled labour has thrived for decades. After the lockdown, an estimated 150,000 of them left the place for their native villages after their workplaces shut and earnings dried up. Residents have pawned their gold, depleted their savings and been pushed into debt. “It was a very harsh containment. It killed the economy of Dharavi,” says Vinod Shetty, a lawyer who runs a non-profit called Acorn India, which works in the slum. “People are living hand to mouth. They are not getting work inside our outside the slum.” In other words, the trade-off between lives and livelihood has been harsh.
The next challenge, agrees Mr Dighavkar, is to slowly open up the factories so that people can go back to work, and ensure that people continue to wear masks and follow all procedures.
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