News: Gurugram most suitable city to live in Covid-19 era, says report-15-06-2021
- As per the analysis, Mahadevapura, was the most suitable zone in Bengaluru. Some of the localities in the zone were Bellandur, Devasandra and Marathahalli.
- Gurugram is the most suitable city to live in during Covid-19 times, considering factors such as population density, open area ratio and hospital infrastructure, said a report by Square Yards titled “Suitability Index: The COVID Perspective”. It said that these are far more important than the distance from work or affordability to decide where a homebuyer wants to live at a time when coronavirus disease is spreading.
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According to the report, Gurugram is overall the most suitable city to live from a Covid perspective as compared to Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, Western and Central suburbs in Mumbai and Mahadevapura zone in Bengaluru were identified as more suitable.
As per the report, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the shortcomings in medical infrastructure like never before. Both Mumbai and Bengaluru were poorly placed in this regard with just 1.3 and 0.30 Covid hospitals available, respectively, per 10,000 people. Gurugram outshone both with 2.5 hospitals per 10,000 people.
The Index defined suitability in the city by population density, open area ratio and the number of hospitals. As per the report, localities in the East zone in Gurugram, like sectors 52-56, 58, 40-44, 30, 24-27, were found to be the most suitable for living as per the index.
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The Covid-suitability index for each city suggests that across all cities, suitability increased as people moved away from the city centres and older parts of the city towards more peripheral locations.
The Index said though the density of Covid-19 cases in this zone was second only to the North, presence of maximum number of hospitals every 10,000 people, more than 40% open area and lowest population density made it the most suitable and hence livable from the Covid-19 perspective.
As per the analysis, Mahadevapura, was the most suitable zone in Bengaluru. Some of the localities in the zone were Bellandur, Devasandra and Marathahalli.
