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 …
Bengaluru: Amit Mondal, a 45-year-old ragpicker, keeps his most precious possession – a bowl full of potatoes and plastic bags with rice and lentils – right next to his bed in a rented tin shed. Stuck without work since the beginning of the statewide lockdown, enforced amid surging Covid-19 cases in the second wave of the pandemic, he said he …
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 …
