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- The Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India, identified its first coronavirus cases on April 2. It is one of the world's biggest slums.
- Onlookers feared that dire sanitation and extremely high population density there would let COVID-19 tear through its 1 million residents, who all live in one square mile.
- But two months on from the first case, Dharavi has emerged as a success story in India's outbreak.
- The slum recorded 491 cases in April and 1,216 in May. But thanks to mass testing and an ardent strategy of containment, only 274 cases and six deaths were reported by the third week of June.
- Scroll down to see how Dharavi did it.
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This is the Dharavi slum in the city of Mumbai, India. It identified its first case of the coronavirus on April 2.
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It is perhaps best known as the setting for the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
One million people live in a one-square-mile area, with eight to ten people sharing a room often no bigger than 10 feet by 10 feet. Eighty percent of people there use communal toilets.
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Source: BBC, The Economic Times of India
Fearing COVID-19 would tear through the slum, authorities in Mumbai and Maharashtra state enforced mass testing and a strict containment to slow the virus.
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The virus could "spread like wildfire" and "wreak havoc" in the slum, Babbu Khan, a municipal councillor in Dharavi, said at the time.
"For the slum-dwellers, it is very difficult to stay safe from a coronavirus-infected neighbor in this incredibly congested slum of Dharavi."
Source: The Guardian
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