Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has hailed the Dharavi model of Covid 19 regulation and said that Asia’s biggest ghetto was a motivation for the remainder of the world on the best way to contain the spread of coronavirus ailment. Uddhav’s remarks follow a comparable honor by World Health Organization (WHO) chief general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Dharavi is a thickly populated ghetto zone in Mumbai with around 10,00,000 individuals pressed in a zone crossing 2.5 square kilometers, making it profoundly defenseless against spread of viruses, for example, Covid-19. However dynamic observation and regulation measures including extreme screening, testing, sanitation and confinement of Covid patients and suspects has prompted a nonstop tightening in the quantity of new contaminations in the zone. This is even more noteworthy given the high pace of contamination in the remainder of Mumbai and different urban communities of Maharashtra. Keeping up social separation is a test in Dharavi, which is spread over 2.5 sq km with populace thickness of 2,27,136 for each sq km. Not only that, as per a senior BMC official, at any rate 80 percent of its populace relies upon 450 network latrines and the organization needed to sterilize and clean these latrines a few times each day.
