Are People’S Living Conditions Impacting On Nfection?

[carolegif]

By that I mean that in China, Italy, Spain etc., many people live in large blocks of apartments with adjoining balconies rather than in houses. Is this why the virus is still rampant in these countries even after their respective lockdowns?

[mallyh]

a lot of them live with big families, gran, granddad mum dad kids

[jno]

I can't see why it should. They live the same way in New York and Paris and they're not doing especially badly. I suppose the safest place to live would be the middle of the Sahara or the Australian outback, where you never see anyone else, but densely populated countries will have much the same problems as each other.

[ichkeria]

Well, the virus isn't rampant in China any more.

[vulcan42]

\\ I suppose the safest place to live would be the middle of the Sahara or the Australian outback,//
North Korea looks quite good at the moment. :o)

[AuntPollyGrey]

It was started in China a disgusting place where hygiene is basically non existent. It landed in Italy due to them having a substantial amount of Chinese workers who had been home for the Chinese New Year and returned to Italy to spread their germs . It spread in Italy because of their habit of kissing everyone or shaking their hands, and was brought to the UK by middle-class skiers having caught it probably from the Chinese cleaners in their Lodges.
So its not peoples living conditions, its personal hygiene, how people interact and who they interact with.