'Social distancing is impossible in a red light area in India'

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There are more than 650,000 sex workers across India. When the country went into lockdown a month ago, they stopped working along with the rest of the country. Some form of subsidy is available for most people who have lost their earnings, but sex workers have been forgotten. The red light districts where many of them live are cramped and social distancing is all but impossible. Let's go to India now where one group of people have not even really been considered when the authorities have tried to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus on people's lives.. Sandhya is the daughter of a prostitute in one of Mumbai's red light districts and an activist for sex workers rights. (Photo: Women wait for customers outside a brothel in Kamathipura, Mumbai. Credit: Getty Images)