{"id":16583,"date":"2020-03-29T22:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T13:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/29\/india-lockdown-tragedy-healthcare-coronavirus-starvation-mumbai"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T13:34:05","slug":"for-a-billion-indians-lockdown-has-not-prevented-tragedy-supriya-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16583","title":{"rendered":"For a billion Indians, lockdown has not prevented tragedy | Supriya Nair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without adequate healthcare and unable to deliver basic needs, India now faces twin catastrophes of coronavirus and starvation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/mumbai-news\/mumbai-has-26k-living-per-1sqkm-says-bmc-report\/story-83y9dyIsVpnQxjQAH9Y1nO.html\">second-most crowded city<\/a> is trying to stay home, but it wasn\u2019t built for social distancing. Ever since it became an entrep\u00f4t of the British empire, Mumbai has been optimised to keep things moving \u2013 both labour and capital. Over the last fortnight, its citizens have been retreating from public premises. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/nov\/28\/slum-loaded-term-homegrown-neighbourhoods-mumbai-dharavi\">majority<\/a> are now confined to one- or two-room tenement housing, often with dividing walls made of tin and tarpaulin. These stand cheek-by-jowl with shops, restaurants and crowded medical clinics. Isolation is for people who live in homes with attached toilets.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers aren\u2019t yet staggering. Unlike New York City, which currently accounts for nearly 10% of the world\u2019s known Covid-19 cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/howindialives.com\/gram\/coronadistricts\/\">Mumbai counts 74<\/a> as of this writing. Unlike London, authorities here initiated shutdowns before India\u2019s government passed orders for a national lockdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/29\/india-lockdown-tragedy-healthcare-coronavirus-starvation-mumbai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without adequate healthcare and unable to deliver basic needs, India now faces twin catastrophes of coronavirus and starvationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe world\u2019s second-most crowded city is trying to stay home, but i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,914,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}