More than three months after COVID-19 infections peaked in Mexico City, the local government announced Friday that the public hospital network dedicated to fighting the disease is experiencing its lowest rate occupancy of the pandemic. One year after the country…
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Australian city orders new lockdown after virus escapes quarantine hotel
Australian authorities ordered a snap, three-day lockdown in the western city of Perth Friday after the coronavirus escaped from a quarantine hotel housing infected international travellers. Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan said a man who was allowed to leave…
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Hlatshwayo Davis appointed to St. Louis City Board of Health
Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, an instructor in medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed to the City of St. Louis Board of Health. Her term begins immediately and…
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French city of Le Havre begins mass testing for COVID-19
The northern French port city of Le Havre on Monday launched a mass drive to test its 270,000 inhabitants for COVID-19 before a nationwide lockdown is lifted. After six weeks of seclusion aimed at taming a second wave of coronavirus…
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Fears of second virus wave in Australia’s second city
Australians were warned Monday to avoid travelling to Melbourne, as the country’s second biggest city tightened coronavirus restrictions amid fears of a second wave of the epidemic. Victoria state has recorded more than 110 cases in the past weekâmany of…
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As coronavirus forces us to keep our distance, city density matters less than internal density
The coronavirus pandemic has left many people questioning the relationship between urban density and healthy cities. After all, physical distancing has been the most common measure to contain the spread of the virus. But this doesn’t mean higher-density cities are…
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Big city, big worry: New Yorkers fret as bustling city slows
New Yorkers awoke Friday to find the coronavirus had left their famously bustling city with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, and a populace unnerved by an ever-worsening crisis. A dizzying series of temporary coronavirus-related closures announced Thursday…
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Where did they go? Millions left city before quarantine
For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first wave of China’s great Lunar New Year migration…
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