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What Factors Caused the Spread of COVID-19 among the Provincial Regions in China?
16 October 2020 | 11:00–12:15 (GMT+8) | Zoom |
Speaker
Prof. Jianfa Shen
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Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management;
Director, Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development, HKIAPS, CUHK
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Discussants
Prof. Wei Xu
Prof. Jiang Xu
Prof. Calvin Chung
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Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
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Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science and HKIAPS, CUHK
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Since December 2019 the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through China and the world. COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that spreads very rapidly across various communities, cities, and countries, mainly through person-to-person contact. The spread of COVID-19 is a typical temporal-spatial process, which raises key research questions about its spread through space. This webinar reported and discussed recent research findings that help to answer these questions, especially the important role that existing migration networks are having on the spread of COVID-19, which has important policy implications for any response.
Prof. Shen’s presentation covered the following topics: (1) the spatial diffusion of infectious diseases; (2) Covid-19 in China and its provincial regions; (3) the process of the growth and diffusion of COVID-19 in China; and (4) factors that caused the spread of COVID-19 in China. Panelists discussed the factors that caused the spread of COVID-19 among the provincial regions of China, as well as the roles played by distance, transportation, population density, and migration flows in the geographic spread of COVID-19.
Around 50 participants attended the webinar.
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