now the World Bank has pledged 1 billion
dollars to India to help tackle the
corona virus pandemic there more than
2,500 infections have now been confirmed
in the country and more than 70 people
are now known to have died the city of
Mumbai has some of the highest numbers
of patients in India with many living in
congested slums sparking fears the virus
could rapidly spread further joget LMI
has more details the virus has reached
here Asia's biggest slum and the most
densely populated area on earth Dharavi
nearly a million people live in less
than a square mile social distancing is
next to impossible
yah-ha enough hope for it not that here
people are extremely scared here if
Italy's healthcare system which is
ranked 2nd in the world couldn't cope
India is far behind them here in Dharavi
as well as in other slums of the city
people have tested positive for
coronavirus once that happens they
usually try to seal the area and then go
door to door to check who else might be
infected but you can imagine the
challenge the government faces trying to
trace the spread of the infection in
cramped spaces like these the number of
cases are doubling every three days now
the healthcare system is already
struggling a doctor treating covered
patients at a hospital that caters to at
least 3 million people described the
condition they're fearful of speaking
out she didn't want her face to be shown
we are totally unprepared in Ahrens Jude
there are only six ventilators so we
have been finding ways where we can use
one Manta later for two patients it's
very scary all of us are just really
overworked there are so many places
rural setups which lack basic health
care facilities they have no hospital
they have no doctors working there and I
think they are going to be hit the worst
by this illness India's spending on
health care is among the lowest in the
world
a doctor here treats four times as many
patients as one in the UK and India has
less than 11 ventilators per million
people to treat Kovac patients if the
virus is a threat shows the stigma of
contracting it in the city of Indore
healthcare workers were attacked for
trying to screen a woman this stadium is
being converted into an isolation center
as our train coaches today lying empty
the railways were shut down nearly two
weeks ago as was the rest of India
it took months for coronavirus to affect
a million people around the world if not
contained in a country the size of India
that number could multiply very quickly
yogurt alum a BBC News Mumbai
there are now more than a million
confirmed cases of corona virus in a
hundred and eighty-one countries with
Europe still the epicenter of the
outbreak Italy with more than 14,000
dead is the worst affected but the daily
mortality rate is coming down Spain
comes next but it does have the highest
number of confirmed coronavirus cases
anywhere in Europe and in France the
number of dead continues to rise with
deaths in care homes now being included
in the figures in Paris police are
strictly enforcing the government's
tough quarantine measures over the
Easter holidays railway stations
airports and major roads will be
monitored to prevent people leaving the
city Lucy Williamson has more details
it's not only nations that thrive on
Liberty epidemics - at stations across
Paris today every journey began with a
police check freedom of movement a new
national threat
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yoanne made it through he's on his way
home to Brittany after two years abroad
but even the smallest mistake means
being turned away I wrote the wrong date
not today's date and they've told me I
need to go back home to prepare another
form I have to go to work but I can't
France carried out almost 6 million
checks during the first fortnight of
confinement far more than neighbouring
Italy and it's issued more than 400,000
fines but questions over when the
confinement will end a growing Frances
tough approach to the confinement runs
the risk of losing public support if it
becomes too harsh or too long the
Interior Minister has advised
sensitivity in applying the rules and
says the police operate differently in
the countryside compared to the big
cities in the poorest suburbs compared
to the towns but the Paris police chief
was forced to apologise today after
taking a very different tone Suchi saw
Albany once were hospitalized today the
ones on life support now are the ones
that didn't respect the quarantine when
it began this is not a video game it's
real there are dead people with few life
support beds left in the Paris region
patients are being sent across the
country for care this is now the worst
hit region of France but is there light
at the end of the tunnel hafidh says
there were no new admissions to
intensive care in his hospital today a
first since the epidemic began the first
glimpse of hope here after weeks of fear
and frustration the first sign that
confinement might have worked
Luci Williamson BBC News Paris