Coronavirus: Why India's busiest rail network is being shut down
Economists like Shruti Rajagopalan believe so.
"Mumbai trains are the fastest and surest way to spread the virus to the densest parts of the city," she told me. "I have not seen any data on the relative risk of public transportation compared with [dense places like] workplaces or schools," Timothy Brewer, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California Los Angeles toldHe said data from China suggested that"household contact was an important means of transmission outside of Wuhan, suggesting that prolonged contact [with a sick person] increases the risk of transmission".
Shivaji Sutar, a senior communications officer of the railways, told me that the network was running an aggressive campaign to ease the rush: awareness announcements, posters and videos containing virus information.
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