From risk stratification approach, to a game-changing vaccine, and
what precautions you should take when visiting a shop - read these and more in
today's India dispatch.
Here’s a round-up
of important coronavirus-related
articles from across Indian publications. From risk stratification approach, to
a game-changing vaccine, and what precautions you should take when visiting a
shop – read these and more in today’s India dispatch
Citizens Under Lockdown
NGO feeds 30,000
slum dwellers daily during lockdown: The Mumbai Roti Bank (MRB), a
non-governmental organisation, founded by Sivanandan in January 2018, has tied
up with the Mumbai Police to ensure that the city’s daily-wage earners and the
poor living in areas like Dharavi, a containment zone, do not go without food.
Covid
lockdown takes a toll on India’s red-light areas: Most residents of
red-light areas live in cramped quarters, with poor sanitation and often no
running water, ruling out social distancing and other hygiene measures that are
supposed to contain the virus. Should a case of Covid-19 be detected in these
areas, it would spread like wildfire, social workers as well as residents of
red-light districts fear.
Long Reads
Essential outreach
services hit in states with worst health indicators: Six of the eight most
socioeconomically backward Indian states — together called the empowered action
group — which have among the highest infant and maternal mortality rates have
discontinued health outreach services during the lockdown, multiple government
and media reports show. Immunisation, antenatal checks (ANCs) and nutrition
drives have been halted in all these states except Odisha, which continues
apace, and Uttarakhand, which has kept its immunisation services open
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