Dhaka slums

Representational Image. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Slum dwellers worried about livelihoods, not corona

No significant number of deaths and infections reported yet in about 3,000 slums of Dhaka’s two city corporations

File photo of Karail slum in Dhaka. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
Economy

Misery upon misery: slum-dwellers find no way out amid pandemic 

Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Why do slums appear to have fewer Covid-19 cases?

Guards remained vigilant to stop anyone from entering Motaharer slum in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on early April. The slum was put under lockdown after a resident there tested positive for Covid-19. File Photo: Saikat Bhadra/TBS
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Dhaka slums edge closer to starvation amid lockdown