“We have been regularly sanitizing public areas, monitoring movement with the help of drone surveillance and running police patrols,” says North Delhi district deputy commissioner Deepak Shinde, whose team faces the challenge of containing the virus in Jahangirpuri’s congested homes and galis where the prescribed norms of physical distancing are practically impossible to follow. “We have common toilets. The rooms are small and the galis just wide enough for one person to pass through. There is no space where you are not rubbing shoulders with at least three to four people,” says Mukesh Sharma, a resident of K-Block in Jahangirpuri. One of the homes inside the containment zones in Mahendru Enclave has 12 people living in a one-bedroom tenement. “People still walk around without masks,” adds Sharma.
The North Delhi district, which is only 60 sq. km, has the second-highest number of active clusters, after Southwest Delhi, which has 37 clusters and is spread over 250 sq. km. According to Census 2011, North Delhi’s population density is more than double that of Southwest Delhi. “Even if a mildly asymptomatic case is in close proximity to others—say, sharing a bedroom or utensils or toilets—there are chances of infection spreading,” explains Dr. B.L. Sherwal, director of the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi. Several of Delhi’s containment zones are congested marketplaces or urban villages—Sadar Bazaar, Ghazipur Village, Naraina village, Masihgarh village, Pilanji village, Khadar, and Ghuman Hera village, to name a few.
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