India's largest slum reports first death from Coronavirus
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Doctors say India must prepare for an 'onslaught' as one of Asia's biggest slums reports first coronavirus death
By Vedika Sud, Helen Regan and Esha Mitra, CNN, April 4, 2020.
New Delhi (CNN)One of Asia's biggest slums has confirmed its first coronavirus death as top Indian doctors warn that the country must prepare to face an "onslaught" of cases that could cripple the health system to levels far beyond what Europe and the United States are experiencing.
A 56-year-old man died due to COVID-19-related illness in Dharavi slum, in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday.
The patient, who had no travel history, died hours just after testing positive for coronavirus while being transferred to a local hospital, Kiran Dighavkar, an official with Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told CNN.
Home to around 1 million people, Dharavi slum has a population density almost 30 times greater than New York -- about 280,000 people per square kilometre.
Doctors say the situation would be unmanageable if a sustained coronavirus outbreak spread rapidly through one of India's many slums, where there is little sanitation or running water and thousands of people live cheek by jowl -- making social distancing physically and economically impossible.
Doctors say India must prepare for an 'onslaught' as one of Asia's biggest slums reports first coronavirus death
By Vedika Sud, Helen Regan and Esha Mitra, CNN, April 4, 2020.
New Delhi (CNN)One of Asia's biggest slums has confirmed its first coronavirus death as top Indian doctors warn that the country must prepare to face an "onslaught" of cases that could cripple the health system to levels far beyond what Europe and the United States are experiencing.
A 56-year-old man died due to COVID-19-related illness in Dharavi slum, in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday.
The patient, who had no travel history, died hours just after testing positive for coronavirus while being transferred to a local hospital, Kiran Dighavkar, an official with Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told CNN.
Home to around 1 million people, Dharavi slum has a population density almost 30 times greater than New York -- about 280,000 people per square kilometre.
Doctors say the situation would be unmanageable if a sustained coronavirus outbreak spread rapidly through one of India's many slums, where there is little sanitation or running water and thousands of people live cheek by jowl -- making social distancing physically and economically impossible.
concern_paki
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Sounds perfect to me, MAY ALLAH DESTROY INDIA AND HINDUS INSHA ALLAH AND AAMEEN
RAW AGENT
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instead of that muslims are getting destroyed , 2880 cases in pakistan 45 dead , 50000 cases in turkey 545 dead , around 35 muslims dead in india .
