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Tracking COVID-19 urban activity changes in the Middle East from nighttime lights

2021-10-19

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have enactedwidespread physical distancing measures to prevent and control virus transmission. Quantitative, spatially-disaggregated information about the population-scale shifts in activity that have resulted from these measures is extremely scarce, particularly for regions outside of Europe and the US. Public health in...

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Literature Corpus work: b737b237-2a68-515e-8e55-1a41619d2cd6
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-990497/v1

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