The authors of this article, examined how the Covid-19 has been spreading and its impact on urban mobility, and environmental quality brought about by the lockdown.
Dr Gift Dumedah, Dr Samuel Ato Arkoful Andam and Prof Ing. Charles Anum Adams, all academics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technolgy (KNUST) present data to show that, undesirable as it is, the lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has provided invaluable hitherto unavailable opportunities in studying mobility and its relationships with the environment, epidemiology, economy, food security, and many more.
According to the scientists, this underscores the importance of transport and environmental monitoring to the overall socio-economic development of Ghana.
The full paper has been published below.
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