Mumbai slum residents grow wary as COVID-19 cases inch up

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Municipal staff fumigates inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Barriers block a road leading to a quarantined area inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Residents queue up to collect milk inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Residents buy vegetables at a road leading to the Dharavi slums during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Smoke billows during fumigation inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Impoverished Indians rest by their shanties at Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Mumbai, India. Image Credit: AP

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Smoke billows during fumigation inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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People make their way along a lane in the Dharavi slums during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Image Credit: AFP

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Health workers carry a man suspected of coronavirus to shift him to a hospital at Shahu Nagar in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during a lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India. Image Credit: Reuters

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Residents purchase milk along a road leading to the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Image Credit: AFP

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A man climbs over a barricade put up by residents inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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A man walk past a barricade put up by residents inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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Residents sit on a road adjacent to an open drain inside the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. Image Credit: AFP

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A man along with his child looks through the window of his house during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic at Dharavi in Mumbai. Image Credit: PTI

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A boy at his shanties at Dharavi slum during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Mumbai, India. Image Credit: AP

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