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While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it
Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | When the first COVID-19 case was detected in Dharavi, a crammed labyrinth of one-room shacks in the heart of India’s financial capital, epidemiologists feared the disease would spiral out of control.Inside one square mile live nearly 1 million people, many of whom survive on daily wages and share public bathrooms. Families sleep in eight-by-eight-foot rooms. People squeeze past one another in alleys. Social distancing .But nearly three months later, authorities in Mumbai appear to have pulled off a miracle — or at least found an unexpected...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | When the first COVID-19 case was detected in Dharavi, a crammed labyrinth of one-room shacks in the heart of India’s financial capital, epidemiologists feared the disease would spiral out of control.Inside one square mile live nearly 1 million people, many of whom survive on daily wages and share public bathrooms. Families sleep in eight-by-eight-foot rooms. People squeeze past one another in alleys. Social distancing .But nearly three months later, authorities in Mumbai appear to have pulled off a miracle — or at least found an unexpected...WW…
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