India coronavirus dispatch: How Dharavi managed to prove doomsayers wrong

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Dharavi’s screen-test-screen-test model: Many had predicted that once the pandemic would hit one of the world’s largest slum, the results would be disastrous. While virus continues to spread, Mumbai’s Dharavi has so far fared much better than what doomsayers feared. Officials opted for a proactive strategy rather than a reactive one — chase the virus before it infects people. Rather than mass testing, mass screening was used by setting up fever camps in localities. Residents had their temperature checked; those suspected were tested and taken to hospital isolation wards if found positive. While ‘test, test, test’ has been the mantra