An SHA blog on Covid-19 reports on the situation in India:
President Trump’s best friend Mr Modi has declared a 3 week lockdown across India and in the process condemned millions of migrant workers to walk without adequate food or water hundreds of kilometres back to their rural villages.
These dreadful scenes include police spraying them with disinfectant and stories of pushing wheelchair bound people 25 miles each day.
Such news reports are matched only by the sealing off of ghetto areas in big cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata. Looking at how these people in dire poverty live without adequate housing, drinking water, food and sanitation is heartrending.
Consider our government’s guidance on staying at home, washing hands and social distancing makes the prospect of widespread community spread, illness and death in these slums an absolute certainty.
Let us hope that Modi’s BNP party do not further fuel anti Muslim feeling in these poor and excluded communities.
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