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Coronavirus: Dharavi sets off alarm bells for Mumbai municipal corporation

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Mumbai: Mumbai’s Dharavi reported one more positive case of covid-19 on Sunday, taking the total in Asia’s largest slum to five.

For the city’s authorities, a potential spread in Dharavi—home to 850,000 people living cheek by jowl—is a ticking time bomb.

For the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country’s richest corporation in charge of the financial capital’s governance, containing the spread of the virus so far has proven to be a challenge.

The first covid-19 case in one of Mumbai’s numerous illegal slum settlements was detected in Worli Koliwada (WK) in the last week of March.

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