Going back to history of outbreaks, World has faced about three global flu pandemics which have caused millions of deaths in 1918, 1957 and 1968. In these outbreaks, two of them are originated in Asia. The one in 1918, Spanish Flu, consider as the grandfather of all outbreaks. Now in 2020, the Corona virus, COVID-19 has been the dominating topic in all news and social media over a month. One of the reasons for the spread of the virus is Urbanization. Today, around 55 percent of the world’s population is living in cities or urban areas with closer proximity to each other. When we notice, the virus spreads more rapidly in countries with strong central government such as China (Wuhan), Italy, Japan and South Korea. Urbanization makes easier and faster to travel, migrate from one place to another for humans as well as the viruses. The next few reasons are excessive optimism and over confidence. As of today, the number of COVID-19 cases recorded is about 150,000 and deaths are abou...
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