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Covid-19: What Nizamuddin Basti can teach India
sehat aapas, or health sisters, who have been working with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture for years to improve the quality of life of the 20,000 residents of Nizamuddin Basti, in south Delhi, dominated by the Muslim community.Since the covid outbreak, they have increased efforts to spread awareness, promote hygiene, conduct door-to-door surveys and distribute dry rations, masks, sanitizers and protective gear.Nizamuddin Basti, which has more than 1,200 houses standing cheek by jowl mostly in narrow lanes, made national headlines towards the end of March, when the six-storeyed headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat, an evangelical sect, emerged as one of India’s biggest covid hotspots.Officials said more than a third of the country’s cases back