Last month, researchers in one of India’s largest cities made a surprising discovery. Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - More than half the people living in Mumbai's sprawling slums are probably infected with the novel coronavirus, which suggests the metropolis could be heading toward herd immunity, a ...
MUMBAI, INDIA — In the breathless heat, Fahim Vora begins his tour of India’s largest slum with a plea to understand its other reality. This sprawling slum of over a million, he says, is more than ...
MUMBAI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A firm led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will start in February to collect the data and biometrics of up to 1 million poor residents as part of the redevelopment of a ...
In a video uploaded on his Facebook account, Drew took his audience inside a small but lively home belonging to Divya, a resident of Dharavi ...
MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...
A woman who recovered from COVID-19 donates blood plasma in Dharavi, Mumbai's largest slum. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images Slums in India are bucking the coronavirus uptick thanks to “herd ...
MUMBAI (Reuters Breakingviews) - Just maybe, India’s financial capital can start to look beyond its Covid-19 lockdown. An antibody testing study has found that a whopping 57% of people sampled in ...
The narrow lanes inside the slum in east Mumbai where Swati Patil lives flood every year during the monsoon season of July and August. "Even if it rains for half an hour, we have waterlogging," says ...