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Social Distancing Challenges with CORONA: The Indian Context

Why #SocialDistancing is a #challenge in #India? My 7 challenges: 1. Dense population 2. Sanitation 3. Personal Hygiene 4. Survival need 5. Day wages 6. Communication 7. Seclusion Were the above issues taken into consideration when we adapted the social Distancing into our Indian context?? Lets see one by one!! 1. #Population - How can we be able to tackle the population who are at high risk? Going by the data where COVID19 affects the elderly and also who are less hygienic, how far we were able to address to that group of population's needs where we have them more in number and see them day in and day out. Is somebody talking to them or do they know such a virus is spreading around. Any measures to quarantine them is happening? 2. #Sanitation - Clean India campaigns even though been going around for many years now, still sanitation in public spaces, garbage collection / disposed area, neighborhoods, drainage leakages, are still a cause of concern. And we talk about ...