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COVID lockdown news from India, including appeal from sex-workers in Kolkota
By: Martin Wingfield
Last updated: Wednesday, 15 April 2020
The outbreak of Covid has thrown all of us into a new situation - from policy-makers to people in towns and cities, in villages and slum. An unknown fear has cast shadow over our minds; we are into making various predictions - from ‘the epidemic will soon be over’ to ‘it is going to be a catastrophe in the coming months’. We do not know. What we know is that the familiar thin and weak people in villages or in the outskirts of cities, people who have little reserve of food or money, will bear the brunt of the new situation most.