if. i make. you. post. keeping your distance is almost impossible in an overcrowded slum. the world bank says over a 1000000000 people face a heightened risk of the coronavirus due to substandard living conditions in slums and other informal settlements like in brazil. the population here is very high it's believed according to our weekly experience that the contamination index and the positive index are high. the united nations is a highly susceptible to cope at 19 due to a shortage on availability of clean water sanitation housing and other basic

necessities. welcome to the show. for the 1st time in history more people now live in urban areas than rural communities and population growth is expected to take place almost exclusively in the world cities and towns a fast pace of. leading to a growing number of slums. conditions and overcrowding make them much more vulnerable to the spread of a disease. asia is home to the world's largest. stand some 2400000 residents have to contend with the scarcity of water and gang violence it's followed by. east of mexico city and in mumbai. a 1000000 residents. 2 of the 5 largest slums are on the african continent in nairobi kenya and cape town south africa. people were expecting the virus would

wipe out entire slums but it hasn't happened like that the indian slum of dharavi is being hailed as a model for containing the spread of covert 19 it was widely reported to have flattened the curve despite the lack of physical distancing and contact tracing officials admit not all deaths are probably registered but health experts argue there could be greater immunity in india due to the high incidence of infectious diseases like tuberculosis still if it's not a virus or viruses that are making life even harder for the poorest of the poor lockdown made things even worse. about a 1000000 people live in this crawling tyro be known for its multicultural and entrepreneurial spirit. with its large migrant working class population he was expected to see massive 1903 earlier this year. instead it effectively contain the spread of the waiters drawing global attention. to

control of the forward situation here the authority of the arctic to measure like a breath of death thing in cleaning all the nice things regular of any and 14th and then defining thinking and hard when you get. the shut down of all the work back in march you do the nationwide lockdown it's the heart of the heart the thousands of small businesses and local shops that had been trading their team to a standstill. mommas good has lived in toby for 20 years working as an art isn't doing thread book on fabric. after months of sitting idle their heads just assumed to work in his workshop. by live our earlier i used to get orders from clients but now i have to go out and look for them. and i still don't get much work. there's been a lot of loss i have to pay the room rent and the electricity bill.

he says he has never seen a slowdown like this. 6 months on with economic activity limping back to life most people like up there are still struggling to a living. family vault of one of the work has been severely affected by the economy was already in bad shape now because of coronavirus people have lost whatever savings they had moving. authorities in will may mean by bracing themselves as charlie has begun to see infections rising again as restrictions are eased and migrant workers are down. we have got indoors to do we're going to. know. where their members. main gates will be more than see we hope to keep on posting them. their regular house and buses is returning to the streets to the changing

situation still require a major overhaul in part of the school nothing to mistrust. after is moving things will pick up a bit one says craftsman back from divinity. but he is still expecting it to be hard to meet a good living for quite some time to come john friesan is a trained engineer and is doing his ph d. on the scale of slums within cities he says determining their exact size is vital in working out their infrastructure and health care needs especially in a pandemic so john what do we know about covered 900 the fact on slops. i've been. recent cross-sectional studies different slums than bangladesh kenya nigeria and india showed that with covered 9000 we see a reduction in access to health care services on all sides including preventive so

this and we also see that the cost of health care increased the household income of the slum dwellers reduced which was also confirmed by the latest report of the published yesterday so basically it sounds like things are going from bad to worse you've studied slums what are your key findings that make this fight against corona even more challenging. i think the greatest challenge is the lack of information and specs so 1st of all we when we think about covered 9000 we know. there are people worth cardiovascular diseases have. our entire risk for severe causes of covered 9000 but we don't know how many people in slums have cardiovascular diseases and the findings we have sometimes contradictory and 2nd we have to say what we know about the health of

a slum dwellers often limited to very specific areas for example. to keep their eye in the hallway or to be in mumbai and a study of ours like you mentioned showed that the majority of slum dwellers does not live in this huge settlements but lives and very small settlements most of them have as the size of nearly a soccer field and. a 3rd we have to say that. we don't know exactly how many people live in these kind of settlements when we look at the population figures vary between 200001 1000000 persons. or 5 and so we simply don't know how many talk we're talking about. certainly we could find out these things i mean what do we need to find out about these slums to come up with the right solutions i know you're talking about a huge amount of people in very small areas but what do we need to. know

about i think i have to repeat i think. the most important formation is to know how many persons are living there because if you want to provide infrastructure for basic needs such as sanitation or health care we have to know how many persons are living there and another fact i would mention i would mention would be that. we have to be aware of the regional differences to take adequate counter measure as a mensa like so we have to know what the similarities are the differences between a slum in bangladesh and a slum in kenya for example. will the pandemic bring the situation of people in slums into greater public focus i mean an outbreak in a slum can threaten the rest of a city and very quickly. i hope so i mean this interview shows that that we are concerned about these people of all these

underprivileged people but what i think is important to mention is that we often cause some invisible or the poor and in my opinion it is especially important to perceive them not as as the others but to perceive them as part of our global community which we are jointly responsible for so it's awareness that's so important but slums here to stay are they part of a reality that just won't change. that think that's a very very tricky question. since the enormous number of people currently moving into cities worldwide cannot be observed by which we caught planned or famine settlements and i think these slums are an informant type of settlements are necessary part of i've been ization. but after all people do not live there without reason and i think the goal of. us as

a global community should be to provide them with basic infrastructure on the one hand and on the other and give them the opportunity to move on and leave the settlements if they want to phrase and thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you. and time to look into your questions about the coronavirus is the w. science correspondent derek williams. what about long term competitions where we seek over 1000 disabilities in the future. doctors are especially worried about the impact of heart damage in patients tissue death and storing there is permanence and poses lifelong health issues we'll obviously only know the long term effects of covert 99 survivors when much more time has passed but there are already indicators that those effects will be significant the doctor who treated british prime minister boris johnson last spring paul the disease this generation's polio

it's a sobering prediction that implies that he at least expects long term disability related to covert 19 to grow common and lots of other experts agree with them. and you'll know how badly the corona virus has affected impacted the tourism industry but many travelers did and still find themselves stranded far from home when that pandemic hit earlier this year including the japanese tourist in peru back in ma jesse takayama order to get to see the world renowned ruins of much picchu i've wanted to go there for ages but have to put off those plans myself well he got there he hadn't got to see the site yet but while strand he made a special request to the government to visit the citadel and now the government has actually granted his wish after

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