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FILE - In this March 13, 2020, file photo, a worker fills a container with water from a water truck at the Villa Maria del Triunfo shantytown in Lima, Peru. The poor who live in the hills of Peru's capital, for whom a basic supply of clean water is a daily struggle, are finding it hard to meet the basic hygiene recommendations by health officials to avoid contracting the new coronavirus: Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

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From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?
March 27, 2020 10:28 a.m.

From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?

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.