{"id":16943,"date":"2020-04-07T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/we-are-very-afraid-scramble-contain-coronavirus-mumbai-slum-dharavi"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:00:15","slug":"we-are-very-afraid-scramble-to-contain-coronavirus-in-mumbai-slum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16943","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are very afraid&#8217;: scramble to contain coronavirus in Mumbai slum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears disease could \u2018spread like wildfire\u2019 in the incredibly congested slum of Dharavi<\/p>\n<p>It was the news that many in India had feared. A 56-year-old man who lived in Dharavi, India\u2019s largest slum, where almost 1 million people are densely packed together in a 2 sq km area in Mumbai, had tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a>. He died shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>It has prompted a scramble by local authorities to halt the virus before it takes hold in this overcrowded, unsanitary enclave, which was the inspiration for Danny Boyle\u2019s film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2009\/jan\/09\/slumdog-millionaire-review-danny-boyle\">Slumdog Millionaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/we-are-very-afraid-scramble-contain-coronavirus-mumbai-slum-dharavi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears disease could \u2018spread like wildfire\u2019 in the incredibly congested slum of DharaviIt was the news that many in India had feared. A 56-year-old man who lived in Dharavi, India\u2019s largest slum, where almost 1 million people are densely packed together&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"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":[1069,62,454,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-mumbai","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\/16943","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\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16944,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}