While the focus has been on containing ‘hot spots’ of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
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The inner suburbs are home to large numbers of workers in jobs vulnerable to the pandemic. If they’re forced to seek cheaper housing in outer suburbs, the urban divide will widen.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne’s suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
With COVID-19 spreading in Sydney’s southwest, can New South Wales avoid a return to lockdown and a similar scenario to Victoria’s second wave? The answer depends on whether there is community spread.
Victoria has recorded its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases. It might be time to return to a statewide lockdown.
The public housing hard lockdown is the product of a punitive public housing system whose residents have been neglected for decades.
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor and Director of Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
