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2 years, 8 months ago

Raj Thackeray asks govt to remove loudspeakers from mosques, calls for strict investigation of mosques and madarsas

Op India

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray addressed the annual Gudi Padwa gathering of his party on 2nd April 2022 at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. In his fierce style, Raj Thackeray warned that if the government is not going to decide anything about the loudspeakers in the mosques, he will put double loudspeakers in front of the mosques and chant Hanuman …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Community spread higher in urban slums: NGO study

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: There is a high degree of community spread of Covid-19 cases among urban slums in the Old City, fever surveillance conducted by an NGO has found. The surveillance was carried out in slums at Hasan Nagar, Shaheen Nagar, Rajendra Nagar and NS Kunta by the NGO Helping Hand Foundation. Until now, 250 RAT tests have been done at random …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Deaths rise in Bengaluru slums amid low Covid-19 testing

Hindustan Times

Bengaluru: It was when his 49-year-old wife suddenly sat down on the floor, gasping for breath, that Hafiz Mohammad Abdullah, a resident of Gopalpura slum in Bengaluru, realised something was wrong. A member of an NGO working in the locality said that testing of people in the slums have been ineffective. Veena, a transsexual woman, who has been working in …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Mumbai Residential Societies Reporting More Cases Than Slums, BMC to Seal Those With 5 or More Infections

News 18

Amid a spurt in the coronavirus cases in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to seal the residential societies that will report five or more COVID-19 cases. Announcing the decision Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said, “We are seeing a higher positivity rate in high-rises than in slums and ‘chawls’.” Maharashtra on Saturday announced the imposition of a state-wide night …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Neighbour’s religion can influence voting in slums

Live Mint

Despite all their poverty, slums are diverse places, with people from different regions, religions and castes living in close proximity. Leaders in these slums exercise patronage politics, promising people of the same religion public services in return for votes. Living close to people from other religions lets one witness patronage politics in action. This makes people with neighbours from other …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Police Station in Aurangabad Holds English Classes For Children From Slums Areas

News 18

Transcending its duty of maintaining law and order, a police station in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad city has been holding English tutorials for children from slum areas on its premises. As part of a community policing programme, Pundalik Nagar police station has started English classes for children from nearby slums, for a period of 15 days, with the help of a teacher, …

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4 years ago

Serosurvey finds 75% test positive for Covid-19 antibodies in Mumbai slums

India Today

In the five slums of the Cuffe Parade area, 605 patients out of 806 tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies. The survey showed that 75 per cent of the population tested positive for Covid antibodies which is one of the highest seroprevalence rates reported in the country. The study further stated that 78 per cent of the population aged between 18 …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Second Sero Survey Indicates 12 Percent Drop in Covid-19 Infections in Mumbai Slums, Says BMC

News 18

The presence of COVID-19 antibodies in samples from slums in the city was found to have decreased by 12 per cent in the second sero survey, the Mumbai civic body has said. It indicates that the infection spread in slums in the city may have come down, said the Brihanmumbai municipal corporation in a release here on Thursday night. The …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Second sero survey indicates reduction in infections in Mumbai slums: BMC

Live Mint

The presence of COVID-19 antibodies in samples from slums in the city was found to have decreased by 12 per cent in the second sero survey, the Mumbai civic body said on Thursday. The latest survey dislosed that "sero-prevalence" of COVID-19 infection in slums is 45 per cent, compared to 57 per cent in the first sero-survey in the city, …

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4 years, 2 months ago

ICMR's second nationwide serosurvey shows big jump in COVID-19 exposure, better testing rates in August vs May

Firstpost

The second survey found dramatically different seroprevalence of COVID-19 in urban slums, non-slums areas and rural areas than the first. The Indian Council of Medical Research has found in its second nationwide sero survey for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, that over seven percent of India’s adult population seems to have been exposed to the coronavirus before the end of August. This …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Every 15th person exposed to virus by Aug, reveals second sero-survey; COVID-19 risk double in urban slums

Firstpost

The risk of exposure to the virus in urban slums was twice that of the risk in non-slum urban areas and four times the risk in rural settings, said ICMR DG Balram Bhargava New Delhi: One in 15 individuals aged 10 years and above were estimated to be exposed to SARS-CoV2 by August 2020, showing that a considerable population is …

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4 years, 3 months ago

JNU Students Give Classes to Children Living in Slums Unable to Attend 'Online Classes' Amid Covid-19

News 18

As the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on education becomes severe day by day, it is the deprived who are put to the maximum disadvantage. For the last 11 days, around 15 students of JNU have been regularly visiting Madhukar Basti, a slum in Munirka locality, and teaching over 30 children there. Our volunteers go every evening and teach more …

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4 years, 3 months ago

5 things that sero-surveys can tell us about true spread of Covid

India Today

Since the Indian Council for Medical Research began to recommend sero-surveys to test for the presence of SARS-CoV2 antibodies in the population, these surveys have sprung up across the country. The pandemic could be spreading faster than previously thought in India Subsequent surveys conducted further into the pandemic’s progress have shown much higher sero-prevalence, potentially indicating that the disease is …

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4 years, 4 months ago

28% Fall in Mumbai's Home Isolation Cases, 62% Drop in Institutional Quarantine as Covid Curve Plateaus

News 18

The number of individuals in home quarantine in Mumbai has fallen by 28% in the last month as the coronavirus curve plateaus in the city. The number of people in institutional quarantine has also dropped by 62% in the same duration in some more respite to Mumbai's residents, According to a Hindustan Times report, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has directed …

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4 years, 4 months ago

India coronavirus: More than half of Mumbai slum residents may have been infected with Covid-19, study suggests

CNN

CNN — More than half of residents living in Mumbai’s crowded slums may have contracted coronavirus and are likely being infected at a much higher rate than those not living in slum areas, a new study has found. The study – a collaboration between local authorities and medical institutions – found that 57% of the samples collected from slum residents …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Mumbai Sero-survey Shows 57% Respondents in Slums, 16% in Housing Societies Were Exposed to Covid-19

News 18

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s first sero-survey study, carried out in three wards of the city, has found that 57% of the respondents who were exposed to coronavirus were from slums and 16% of those exposed were from residential housing societies. The survey took place in Chembur, Matunga and Dahisar areas for almost 14 days in the first half of July …

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Raj Thackeray asks govt to remove loudspeakers from mosques, calls for strict investigation of mosques and madarsas

Community spread higher in urban slums: NGO study

Deaths rise in Bengaluru slums amid low Covid-19 testing

Mumbai Residential Societies Reporting More Cases Than Slums, BMC to Seal Those With 5 or More Infections

Neighbour’s religion can influence voting in slums

Police Station in Aurangabad Holds English Classes For Children From Slums Areas

Serosurvey finds 75% test positive for Covid-19 antibodies in Mumbai slums

Second Sero Survey Indicates 12 Percent Drop in Covid-19 Infections in Mumbai Slums, Says BMC

Second sero survey indicates reduction in infections in Mumbai slums: BMC

ICMR's second nationwide serosurvey shows big jump in COVID-19 exposure, better testing rates in August vs May

Every 15th person exposed to virus by Aug, reveals second sero-survey; COVID-19 risk double in urban slums

JNU Students Give Classes to Children Living in Slums Unable to Attend 'Online Classes' Amid Covid-19

5 things that sero-surveys can tell us about true spread of Covid

28% Fall in Mumbai's Home Isolation Cases, 62% Drop in Institutional Quarantine as Covid Curve Plateaus

India coronavirus: More than half of Mumbai slum residents may have been infected with Covid-19, study suggests

Mumbai Sero-survey Shows 57% Respondents in Slums, 16% in Housing Societies Were Exposed to Covid-19