Coronavirus chart shows how busy cities have been since outbreak
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus chart shows how busy cities have been since outbreak

ABC  

This month, many of the world's busiest cities have ground to a halt amid coronavirus shutdowns. The percentages shown in the chart are people's activity compared with the average level for that city, so you can see that at the beginning of March, some cities were even more active than usual. Still, movement in Sydney and Melbourne is considerably higher than European cities in countries hit hard by coronavirus, which have fallen to single digits. The Australian data comes as pre-publication modelling from the University of Sydney shows eight in 10 Australians must stay home to avoid an exponential rise in cases. Stay up-to-date on the coronavirus outbreak Download the ABC News app and subscribe to our range of news alerts for the latest on how the pandemic is impacting the world

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The Latest: Sydney has new high for coronavirus infections
3 years, 5 months ago

The Latest: Sydney has new high for coronavirus infections

Associated Press  

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Coronavirus: Will our day-to-day ever be the same?
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus: Will our day-to-day ever be the same?

BBC  

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Australia’s Victoria sees a steady drop in new coronavirus cases
4 years, 3 months ago

Australia’s Victoria sees a steady drop in new coronavirus cases

Deccan Chronicle  

Sydney: Australia’s Victoria state said the daily rise in coronavirus infections eased further on Thursday, as the state began relaxing most restrictions outside its largest city of Melbourne after a steady drop in cases in recent days. Victoria, Australia’s second-most populous state, reported 28 new cases on Thursday, the lowest daily rise since June 24 and down from daily highs …

Mapping corona's reproduction rate in India's worst-affected cities
4 years, 4 months ago

Mapping corona's reproduction rate in India's worst-affected cities

India Today  

Regional heterogeneity is a prime aspect in the spread of coronavirus as India records more than 80,000 new cases every day. With the country waiting in earnest for a vaccine, India Today Data Intelligence Unit maps the spread of the infection in worst-hit cities using the reproduction rate of the virus Rt. Situation bleak in Delhi Rt in Delhi remained …

Cases continue to surge in Melbourne even after month-long lockdown
4 years, 5 months ago

Cases continue to surge in Melbourne even after month-long lockdown

Deccan Chronicle  

Melbourne: Australia's worst-hit state of Victoria reported 15 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, including a man in his 30s, making it the country's deadliest day of the pandemic to date. An outbreak in Melbourne, Australia's second-biggest city and the capital of Victoria, has seen hundreds of new cases recorded daily in recent weeks, including 725 on Wednesday. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews …

Smaller districts now replacing metro cities as worst hotspots
4 years, 5 months ago

Smaller districts now replacing metro cities as worst hotspots

Live Mint  

The spread of the coronavirus has slowed down in most metro cities that were until recently the worst hotspots of the outbreak. East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has reported more cases than Thane, Chennai and Mumbai in the last two days, data compiled by howindialives.com on Tuesday evening showed. Of the 12 states with the most active cases, Andhra …

How coronavirus pandemic has moved beyond India's big cities
4 years, 5 months ago

How coronavirus pandemic has moved beyond India's big cities

India Today  

By the end of Thursday, most headlines were about the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in Bengaluru. Numbers bore out this focus; in early June, for instance, just three cities - Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai - accounted for 40 per cent of all cases and 44 per cent of all new cases in India. Covid-19 spread in India's big cities …

Australia warns coronavirus outbreak will take weeks to tame
4 years, 5 months ago

Australia warns coronavirus outbreak will take weeks to tame

Deccan Chronicle  

Sydney: A surge in COVID-19 cases in Australia’s second-biggest city could take weeks to subside despite a lockdown and orders to wear masks, Australia’s acting chief medical officer said on Monday as the country braces for a second wave of infection. Authorities in the state of Victoria, whose capital Melbourne is in partial lockdown amid a new outbreak, reported 275 …

The mistakes that pushed Australia’s second largest city Melbourne back into coronavirus lockdown
4 years, 6 months ago

The mistakes that pushed Australia’s second largest city Melbourne back into coronavirus lockdown

Live Mint  

All it took was missteps in the handling of travelers returning from overseas and complacency in a handful of neighborhoods to plunge Australia’s second-largest city into lockdown for the second time in four months. The six-week lockdown will cause “enormous amounts of damage” to the economy and people’s welfare, state Premier Daniel Andrews conceded as he announced Tuesday that residents …

Seven Indian metros are now recording 1,000 new cases of coronavirus every day
4 years, 6 months ago

Seven Indian metros are now recording 1,000 new cases of coronavirus every day

India Today  

From the three metropolises of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai having among the worst daily new coronavirus cases in the world, India is now in a situation where seven big cities have new cases at record levels. On Friday, July 3, six Indian cities the three worst affected, and Thane, Hyderabad and Pune reported more than 1,000 cases for the day. …

Stunning new graphs show how coronavirus is still surging in many US ciites
4 years, 7 months ago

Stunning new graphs show how coronavirus is still surging in many US ciites

Daily Mail  

Shocking new graphics show that the novel coronavirus is still surging in several counties across the US. Harrison, Texas has seen daily cases increase from about 300 per 100,000 people in mid- April to 3,000 per 100,000 on May 22 - a 900 percent increase Daily infections jumped in Clay County, Florida from 160 per 100,000 on April 1 to …

Recovering from coronavirus: Data shows how Australia is rebuilding as COVID-19 restrictions ease
4 years, 7 months ago

Recovering from coronavirus: Data shows how Australia is rebuilding as COVID-19 restrictions ease

ABC  

Australians are heading back out onto the streets, they're driving their cars again and more people are heading back to the shops, schools and offices. Data released by Apple shows that across Australia requests for driving directions from its mapping service dropped by 73 per cent from regular levels at its lowest point on April 11. Stay up-to-date on the …

What Cities Could Look Like In A Post-Coronavirus World
4 years, 7 months ago

What Cities Could Look Like In A Post-Coronavirus World

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The American city has always been a symbol — of prosperity and opportunity, of culture and creativity, of segregation, gentrification, having and having not. Gary Hershorn via Getty Images Is this historically true of cities, or was there a time early on in the American city when this wasn’t the case? It’s really bad for cities if …

How coronavirus could forever change the look and feel of Australia's cities and suburbs
4 years, 9 months ago

How coronavirus could forever change the look and feel of Australia's cities and suburbs

ABC  

In just a matter of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has turned our vibrant modern cities into virtual ghost towns. "I think it's forced a lot of organisations to work online, even though the technology has been around for some time," he said. "We might see a little details like that change, but I don't think there's going to be anything …

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