Corona Effects on SEX WORKERS

Corona has affected the life of people all around the world. It has also affected the life of sex workers to a great extent. A sex worker living in the GB Road Red Light area of Delhi said, "Our life was not less than hell before and the corona epidemic has taken away everything from us. There is neither a customer nor a ration at home, nor is there anyone to take care of our health."

Their plight is realized as they climb the narrow ladder of paan peaks and reach the innumerable small rooms on the second third floor. In a room of twenty to forty where eight to ten people are forced to live, it is also very difficult to maintain social distance. If some children are small, there is no arrangement of milk, then there is no grass to burn the stove in anyone's house. Shalu's family, who came from West Bengal after her husband's death, lives in Darjeeling and some of their accumulated capital has also been exhausted.

She told media agency 'Bhasha' that, "In the first week of lockdown, no one came to ask us. There was a lot of money nearby, that too slowly ended. Now any NGO or police gives food, then they eat it, but often that food is not edible. "Actually, since the corona outbreak, customers have also stopped coming here, after which these sex workers have been facing A big crisis has arisen. Lockdown and social distance guidelines have forced more than a thousand sex workers living in 90 to 100 rooms in Delhi's t GB Road to face problems.