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In this March 20, 2020 photo, Gloria Felismino da Silva, center, sits with her family to watch the news in their window-less home in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid the spread of the new coronavirus. As the virus spreads, the World Health Organization has pointed out that the future of the pandemic will be determined by what happens in some of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries. From Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg the question is: What do you do if there is no space to socially distance yourself from others in some of world’s most unequal regions? (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing is impossible for us,” she said.