<span style="color: #222222;">The Chief of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhnom Ghebreyesus recently praised Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In this report we will come across the success story of Dharavi, which is home to almost 10 lakh people and how it succeeded in bending the curve of Covid-19 and setting a shining example to the world.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;</b></span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, it was a concerted effort of various machineries that came together to win the battle against coronavirus in Dharavi.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">From police, to doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, sanitation workers, member of parliament, MLA, state administration and municipal corporation all of them came together under single umbrella with one goal and that was to break the chain of virus.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Dharavi Model is a silver lining in the state of Maharashtra which is witnessing surge in Covid cases on a daily basis.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Acting swiftly from&nbsp;the moment first case was detected, the police undertook several measures right from making announcements on loudspeakers to maintain social distancing and keeping watch on the movement of people through advanced drone cameras.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Social messaging app Whatsapp was also used to circulate the audio clip asking people to take precautions to prevent spread of the infection.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Over 70 thousand migrant workers from Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha&nbsp;were transported to their hometowns from Dharavi through special Shramik trains and buses.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These measures indeed helped in bringing down the density of population and putting extra burden on the machinery.&nbsp;</span><br />'' &nbsp;
News On AIR | July 13, 2020 9:09 PM
Dharavi Model: Success story of Dharavi's fight against COVID-19