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April 7, 2020Gestión

Gestión: 235 food markets in Lima are identified as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion

“If people become infected in these areas, the virus will start to run very fast due to the existing conditions. So what is the area with the greatest potential for contagion in that territory? The markets and supermarkets.” Gestión.pe spoke with Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, who explained that the research of GRADE’s Urbanization and Sustainable Cities team, which was able to identify supply centers located in Metropolitan Lima that could be potential sources of contagion and complicate the strategies of disease containment.