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Sunday, 2 August 2020

COVID-19: Washington Post adulates Mumbai's Dharavi endeavors


After the World Health Organization's (WHO) gratefulness, presently the Washington Post has likewise commended the Dharavi-model that contains the spread of Coronavirus. The biggest ghetto in the nation saw quick transmission of the destructive infection during the underlying days of its flare-up. 

The American day by day paper has valued the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for the way Dharavi has beaten back the infection despite seemingly insurmountable opposition. Prior, it had likewise adulated Mumbai's information straightforwardness versus other significant urban communities of India in the battle against Covid-19. 



In the article named 'How a stuffed ghetto in Mumbai beat back the coronavirus, as India's cases keep on taking off,' in its Friday (July 31) version, the Washington Post has expressed that Dharavi's turnaround offers the two exercises and guarantee for other thick neighborhoods, especially in parts of the creating scene doing combating the pandemic.


'For Dharavi to turn a corner amidst this emergency is an essential story of modified arrangements, network contribution and determination,' said the paper. 

Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, who was depended by the Maharashtra government with the duty to check the developing Covid-19 pandemic in Mumbai, hailed the metro authorities for their endeavors in containing the episode in Dharavi. 'Group BMC settle not to bring down watch and never be careless in battle against Covid-19,' he said. 

As per the information, the first Covid-19 patient in Dharavi was found on April 1, about three weeks after Mumbai recorded its lady positive case on March 11. Be that as it may, presently Dharavi has just 72 dynamic Covid-19 cases, while 2,235 patients have recouped and released from Covid-19 offices. More than 85 percent of patients in Dharavi have recuperated up until this point.


Extolling the endeavors, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a month ago had said Dharavi has indicated that regardless of whether the episode is exceptionally extreme, it can in any case be managed back with supported and devoted endeavors. 

'A solid spotlight on network commitment and the nuts and bolts of testing, following, disengaging and rewarding every one of those that are debilitated is critical to breaking the chains of transmission and stifling the infection,' he had said. 


Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray also commended the endeavors by saying Dharavi has become a worldwide good example in the regulation of coronavirus. It indicated that coronavirus can be contained through self-restraint and network endeavors.

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