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Cities, crowding, and the coronavirus: Predicting contagion risk hotspots
To help city leaders prioritize resources towards places with the highest exposure and contagion risk, the World Bank has developed a methodology that can be rapidly deployed. This methodology identifies hotspots for exposure and vulnerability, based on:
- The practical inability for keeping people apart, based on a combination of population density and livable floor space that does not allow for 2 meters of physical distancing.
- Conditions where, even under lockdown, people might have little option but to cluster (e.g., to access public toilets and water pumps).
The analysis requires three primary datasets: population, building heights, and location of key services.
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