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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Main Author: Bhardwaj, Gaurav (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2020
Series:World Bank E-Library Archive
Online Access:Volltext
Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
DOI:10.1596/33648