For the 1.2 billion people around the world who live in densely populated slums, crowded conditions and scarce public services threaten to make the Covid-19 pandemic especially devastating.
Published in Financial Times By Robert Muggah With president Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as “sniffles” and criticising regional lockdown measures, the country’s drug gangs and paramilitary groups have stepped in to enforce social distancing to combat the spread of coronavirus. “Whoever is caught on
Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent citieswhen she heard a volley of gunfire and her count was rendered suddenly out of date.
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