Beyond the Covid-19 red zones

Risk assessment of communities and areas is essential before full movement of people starts

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the US representative from New York 14th congressional district (NY14), on April 8 reiterated her controversial views on environmental racism and its relation with the Covid-19 pandemic. In a Twitter post, she said black and brown communities in the US “have long been treated as dump yards. Trucking and waste sites spike respiratory and other disease”. The provocation of the tweet was a race-wise break up given out by governor Andrew Cuomo, New York’s most familiar face these days who is on television every day briefing about the pandemic.

Ocasio-Cortez said the Bronx locality already had some of the