Cities, Crowding, and the Coronavirus: Predicting Contagion Risk Hotspots

They are forced to leave their home every day to go to work, buy groceries, and do laundry. This is especially true in low-income neighborhoods of developing countries - many of which are slums and informal settlements. In fact, 60 percent of Africa's urban population is packed into slums - a f...

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1. Verfasser: Bhardwaj, Gaurav (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2020
Schriftenreihe:World Bank E-Library Archive
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Zusammenfassung:They are forced to leave their home every day to go to work, buy groceries, and do laundry. This is especially true in low-income neighborhoods of developing countries - many of which are slums and informal settlements. In fact, 60 percent of Africa's urban population is packed into slums - a far larger share than the average 34 percent seen in other developing countries (United Nations 2015). With people tightly packed together, the resulting crowding increases contagion risk from the coronavirus
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DOI:10.1596/33648