Urban localities are often overcrowded, with many people crammed into very small living spaces. A substantial percentage of this population is migrant workers employed in industrial and other informal sector. These areas are characterized by poor structural quality of housing, inadequate access to safe water, poor sanitation and insecure residential status.
There are gaps in health and healthcare services.
In the context of COVID (or any other respiratory infectious disease for that matter) implementing strategic interventions such as surveillance, physical distancing, isolation, quarantine and communicating the risk to the dwellers could be challenging.
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