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Mumbai: How Covid-19 has ravaged India's richest city
May 27, 2020
With more than 31,000 cases, Mumbai accounts for more than a fifth of India's coronavirus infections and nearly a quarter of deaths. The BBC's Yogita Limaye finds out why India's financial capital is so badly affected.
Mumbai has long been described as a city always on the run. It sounds like a cliché, but as someone who has lived here most of my life, I can confirm it's true. Even during the 2008 attack, on a day when there were active gunmen in south Mumbai, in other parts of the city, trains were running, millions went to work, and restaurants and offices remained open.
But Covid-19 has turned the city into a ghost town as a stringent lockdown remains in place with no easing of restrictions.
It has also left its medical infrastructure on the brink of collapse.
"Last night in just six hours I saw 15 to 18 deaths all from Covid-related causes. Never before have I seen so many people dying in a single shift," a doctor from KEM hospital - one of the many government institutes treating coronavirus patients - told me.
He refused to be named for fear of repercussions.
"It's a war zone. There are two to three patients per bed, some on the floor, some in corridors. We don't have enough oxygen ports. So even though some patients need it, they can't be given oxygen."
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