Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. Coming up,

life under lockdown in one of Africa's biggest slums. The greatest enemy is not even that virus. We have

rumours and stigma. You know, when you have that virus, you'll be stigmatized. So now people have a lot of fear.

We hear from Nairobi and Manila today, two cities undergoing tough measures to combat COVID-19,

but is the cure worse than the disease?

We are damaging lots of other things that not only cause money, eventually they cause deaths.

I mean, if you ruin the economy, that will translate to millions of people dying directly or indirectly.

That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

The last two days have seen some extraordinary, almost once-in-a-lifetime policy responses around the world.

Governments across Europe each pledging

hundreds of billions of dollars to support their own teetering economies in Washington. A trillion

dollar package is being discussed. But amidst all these rich world responses, spare a thought

for people in poorer economies. There, the pandemic itself has yet to be felt, but drastic efforts to prevent

its spreading are already causing significant hardship for people, many of whom were on the

poverty line to start with. We've been hearing, first of all, from those battling the consequences

of a tough government lockdown announced last week in the Filipino capital, Manila.

I'm sorry, no, Ricky Indicio. I'm a resident of Kesan City here in Metro Manila.

Yes, I understand this is a pandemic and there's a seas of spreading, but the solution of the

government has been very harsh for us,

because our mobility was really dampened.

We cannot get out of the community.

Me and my fellow vendors cannot go to the big market to buy more supplies for us,

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