Coronavirus / Delhi tops the list in terms of corona spreading, these are the top-10 cities

Coronavirus | Pune-based Indian Institute of Education and Research (IISER) has prepared a map of cities where the corona epidemic is at risk of spreading rapidly. Delhi is at the fore in this study of IISER. After that the number of Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai comes. Pune is at 10th position in this list. IISER has ranked 446 cities in the country with a population of more than one lakh in its map.

The Physics Department of IISER has used the Transportation Network and Mobility Pattern to prepare this map. Under which the city with the lowest rank has the highest risk of spreading the epidemic. According to research scientists, the transport system in these cities is very large as well as connected to many places. Because of this virus infection can spread from here to outside.

The spread of infection depends more on the transport mode

MS Santhanam, lead researcher at IISER said, “The spread of virus infection depends less on how dangerous it is and where it spread first. Rather it depends more on the transport mode of that city. Because due to this this infection spreads far and wide. This thing becomes clear after studying the corona virus and other infectious diseases that have come before that.

IISER has also used mobility and transport data in this project. According to this, they have been given a score on the basis of how much risk these cities will be in if the corona epidemic spreads in another city. For example, if the epidemic spreads in Pune, then Mumbai will be at the forefront of the spread of infection. Maharashtra's Satara city will be ranked 19th and Latur at 50th place.

The spread of infection can be stopped by blocking transport

Onkar Sadekar, a member of the IISER team on the science behind the map, said, "It works on a very simple principle. Movement of people from one place to another is responsible for the spread of infection. By getting information about the traffic of this infection, then the geographical location of the spread of this infection can be known.

According to another member of the team, Sachin Jain, "If an infectious disease comes in one city, then how long will it take to reach other cities. By finding out this time, we can rank different cities. In which city The time of its spread will be the highest, its rank will be the lowest. Once these places are identified, we can use it to block the transport here. So that the spread of the infection can be stopped."