On March 14, the day after a man from their building tested positive for coronavirus, the residents of a housing society in the Mumbai subu...
On March 14, the day after a man from their building tested positive for coronavirus, the residents of a housing society in the Mumbai suburb of Ghatkopar visited the local police station to complain that they were being boycotted by their neighbours.
Domestic workers were threatened with dismissal if they continued to work for families in the building in which the family of the 64-year-old man lived, reported the Mumbai Mirror. Staff were warned against collecting garbage and delivery personnel were told they would be infected if they continued their services to the building.
More than ten days after the man succumbed to the virus, residents of the building are still isolated, a sales and distribution professional who lives in the same complex told Scroll.in on Tuesday. “In that society, no house help is going there,” he said. “They have been in lockdown for the past ten days.”
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads through India, several cases have been reported from other parts of the country of people being stigmatised for testing positive or merely being under quarantine. In some cases, mere suspicion of being infected has been cause for ostracisation.
By Tuesday, even doctors and parademics across the country were facing the same threat, prompting Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to...
