Case in a Mumbai slum: Officials hit tracking hurdle

March 21, 2020 12:06

How can we get it, why are you here to test us because we are poor and live in slums? These were the words the son of the 68-year-old domestic help, who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 18, confronted civic officials with when they came knocking at his door in a 250 sqft home in a central Mumbai slum.

The first case perhaps in India where a slum-dweller has contracted COVID-19 infection has thrown open the challenges of community tracing in a dense slum where over 23,000 people are huddled in less than a square kilometre of land.

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