MUMBAI : In the middle of May, India’s worst virus-hit city Mumbai woke up to an unpleasant realisation: The monsoon was coming.
While distress and disease have always followed the torrential deluge, there was an added problem this year. The city’s fragile and patchy health system had already been swamped by covid by mid-April.
What happens when malaria and dengue cases begin surfacing right in the middle of a pandemic. Frenetic, though delayed, preparations have been on for two weeks. “There is a huge mobilisation on the ground.
I am not sure if any Indian city has seen a public health ramp-up like this," said Pankaj Joshi, executive director of the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI) in Mumbai.