COVID-19 spreads faster in cities than villages: PGMI principal.

LAHORE -- :Ameer-ud-Din Medical College and Post-graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Lahore Principal Prof Dr Sardar Mohammad Al-freed Zafar has said that coronavirus was a contagious disease, which has spread more rapidly in densely populated cities compared to the rural areas.

Talking to the media here on Sunday, he said the main reason was that people were more in touch with each other and ignore precautions in cities. He said that less cases of coronavirus had been reported in suburbs, villages and towns than in big cities of the world. A similar situation has been witnessed in Pakistan, he added.

Prof Al-Freed Zafar said that women had been less affected by coronavirus as they have higher immunity than men. He said that open air was essential for protection from coronavirus, and that was why rural populations were safer than those in big cities.

He said that the virus had appeared for the third time in the world. For the first time, when it appeared in 2002, it was called SARS (Severe acute...

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