How cities around the world are handling COVID-19 - and why we need to measure their preparedness

• More than half the world's population lives in cities, hubs for transnational business and movement with the potential to amplify pandemic risk;
• Cities with a high concentration of urban poor and deep inequalities are potentially more vulnerable than those that are better resourced, less crowded and more equal;
• National and city governments could benefit from a pandemic preparedness index to better plan for and respond to epidemic outbreaks. There is currently no such map of city-preparedness around the world.

Link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/how-should-cities-prepare-for-coronavirus-pandemics