Italy
Euroviews. In Italy and further afield, pollution and poverty have played a part in worsening COVID-19 ǀ View
There are important clues in the patterns the disease is leaving that tell us quite a bit about what conditions can hasten its spread and worsen its lethality. So far, the areas where the most people are dying of the disease have been densely populated urban zones in China, Iran and northern Italy.
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