Although Covid-19 is by no means the first pandemic to affect humans on a mass scale – bubonic plague, smallpox, and the Spanish flu are perhaps the most memorable past examples – both the spread of the virus and the ways in which we as a society have responded to it are very different because […]
There are approximately 2.5 million people in Bhopal, with an estimated half a million gas survivors. Of those, 350,000 are registered for treatment at local hospitals. As of today, the total death toll in the city stands at 33, more than 20 of whom were survivors of the 1984 gas disaster. Here is the timeline […]
In our last coronavirus update we reported that the first seven people to die of Covid-19 in Bhopal were all survivors of the 1984 gas disaster. As of today, the total death toll stands at 15, 13 of them gas survivors. In the wake of the first deaths in the city, the four survivor groups […]
As of today, the number of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster who have died of Covid-19 currently stands at 12. Due to the prevalence of respiratory issues and other long-term health conditions resulting from gas exposure, thousands more remain vulnerable to the spread of the virus. These existing health conditions, along with the age […]
As the nation-wide lockdown in India to stem the spread of coronavirus continues, staff from the Sambhavna and Chingari clinics, in conjunction with the five survivor organisations in the city, have implemented fresh measures to monitor and respond to cases of Covid-19 in Bhopal. With the lockdown in place and local government ill-equipped to properly […]
