COVID-19

Day 5 of COVID- I feel better and don't really have any symptoms. Lets see how the day goes. 

People blindly follow most of the time. I am confused if I should get vaccinated or not. I have heard from so many side effects. 

A bit low than usual.

Hey people,
Sending all the positive vibes. I'm under a lockdown in my city due to rising covid cases. I feel confined in four walls. And I've been working from home which is causing alot of stress. Please suggest me things to do to feel motivated. 

Mental Wellbeing

Each one of us is fighting our own battle in their personal lives and we all are fighting one of the biggest battles in the modern times "Corona"..
Let's all pray for everyone's safety and send good vibes to all who need it..!!
Stay safe...!! 

How about making new friends because it’s covid time and I’m in my home it’s really boring 😕

Friends

So bored of being at home now. It is so irritating and frustrating. Everything is just Online- online. Want to go out and live a normal life like 2019! Oh god, hope covid ends soon now! It’s too much🙏🏻

Anxiety

Adversities: Coronavirus
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in India may disproportionately hurt millions of urban poor living in slums across major cities. The slew of measures undertaken by the Centre and State governments, including the 21-day lockdown to enforce “social distancing”, may not be adequate to shield urban slum dwellers from the disease. Over 65 million or 22 per cent of India’s total population lives in urban slums, which are characterized by acute poverty, over-crowding, unhealthy living conditions, and a weak urban public health setup. The effect of the lockdown, though well-intentioned, will affect the urban poor more than anyone else. To make matters worse, public health centres may not be equipped to provide quality and affordable healthcare for the people living in poverty.

The number of COVID-19 cases in India is witnessing a sharp increase. In the absence of community testing, it is unclear whether the outbreak has made its way into the urban slums, especially across metropolitan areas. But it is abundantly clear that combating the COVID-19 in urban slums will take more concerted efforts and expose a large section of the urban poor families to deep impoverishment. The social distancing measures may not be as effective in this context, since the dynamics of poverty and disease plays out differently for urban slum dwellers, compared to the wealthier sections of the society.

A majority of the families living in slums are migrant workers who undertake both short and long duration movements to cities to look for higher wages and work opportunities. The work in an urban informal economy is intermittent, marked by low-skill requirements, low wages, severe competition, and constant job insecurity. Therefore, a migrant household living in urban slums may not have the luxury to “work from home” in a highly informal market. The families living under or near poverty may not have disposable cash to stockpile food or basic necessities for a 21-day lockdown, leaving them vulnerable to hunger, malnutrition, and increasing their vulnerability to the virus. A potential outmigration of the urban poor back to the villages may also exacerbate the extent of the outbreak in India.

The physical environment of an urban slum makes it a Petri dish for disease transmission. Data reported by the central government finds that slums are often located along drains or railway lines, and many of them lack basic drinking water, sanitation, and sewage or garbage disposal systems. Slums are incredibly packed spaces that can make social distancing nearly impossible with reports suggesting more than 1,00,000 people living per square kilometre. The insanitary living conditions and overcrowding have previously led to a history of infectious disease epidemics such as the H1N1 swine flu in 2015, or the dengue and chikungunya outbreak in 2015-16.

The implications of a Covid-19 outbreak in the urban slums can be disastrous for the urban poor and the public health setup. In the absence of affordable and quality public healthcare, families living in slums run the risk of deep impoverishment, disease, and death. On the other hand, the public health system runs a high risk of getting overrun by patients, only at a scale much worse than the previous swine-flu outbreaks.

The situation calls for a roll-out of urgent administrative measures, starting with affordable or free testing, identification, and quarantine of bearers of the virus in slum areas. This has to be followed by the provision of door-to-door drinking water and mobile toilet facilities to avoid crowding around water points or community toilets.



Hy people. 
After a long while I am here. I actually started feeling nice after being in constant touch with this platform. But now again there is something inside me. 

I really want to share my covid story with you. Can you please give your precious time to read me.? 

So it started on April 2nd. I got fever and severe body pain.  After that my brother but we had mild infection so we recover soon. As I hope so because we didn't got tested ourselves. Then my dad. He got tested and turn out to be negative. But then the most horrific thing happened. My mom started feeling unwell. I again got severe joint pain and my sense of taste and smell was gone. On 13th April my grandma got ill no hospital no dr was ready to treat her. With our atmost efforts we got a bed in a hospital but on the condition to check if she have covid. Our whole family got tested for covid. My sample got miss and my mom turned positive. 

That was really shocking for me she was unable to breathe and same condition was mine but I have to be strong because my grandma was on her last breath my mom tested positive and highly inflected. I didn't tell anyone about myself because I have to be there. After 2 days my grandma got positive we were not allowed to even see her. 
She was quarantine on ground floor and my mom on first. That was really hard for us. 
We took grandma to aiims but looking at her condition Dr didn't give her treatment and told us to remain her at home only. 
On 28 we got a hospital who got ready to admit her and on the very first hour after admitting her she died. 
 My father still in the trauma. I am still feeling the weight on my chest. My mom still guilty to not able to do anything for her. 

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