MSF resumes activities in response to India’s COVID-19 second wave
April 24, 2021Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is restarting emergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra. The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the...
Read moreResponding to COVID-19 pandemic in Mumbai
September 18, 2020What We Do In response to the current COVID-19 crisis in India, MSF has restarted its emergency operations in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the...
Read moreOvercrowded, dense, dilapidated… the realities of containing COVID-19 in Mumbai’s informal settlements
September 8, 2020In late-August, India surpassed the three-million-mark of people infected by COVID-19. Maharashtra has reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, with more than a quarter of the total. Two in three of these were in the city...
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