Covid-19: Bengaluru, Delhi better at social distancing than global cities

Though Covid-19 cases are on the rise in top Indian cities such as Delhi and Bengaluru and the curve has not flattened even after almost a month of lockdown, these cities have fared better than their global counterparts in terms of factors such as social distancing.
 

Near, a location-based data intelligence platform based out of Singapore, analysed the density and mobility across cities to understand the vulnerability of a city to the spread of Covid-19. Using data gathered, it devised the Density index, a representation of how crowded place categories such as supermarkets and places of worship can become in