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communities in preparing for disasters (Rosenstock et al. 2008). COVID-19 that
appeared at the end of December 2019 in a wet market at Wuhan, China rapidly
spread to a number of countries and was declared a Public Health Emergency of
International Concern by WHO on 30 January 2020 (Mackenzie and Smith 2020).
The virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 infected more than 3300 healthcare
workers in early 2020 in China (Wang et al. 2020a). Poor safety protocols and
breakdown of the emergency response procedures were linked to leak of the styrene
vapour in LG Polymers unit at Visakhapatnam, India on 7 May, resulting in death of
12 people and sickness to 585 others that included general public outside premises
of industry (The Wire 2020). As discussed in Chap. 6, the leakage of poisonous gas
Fig. 7.3 Poverty often pushes people to unsafe practices
Fig. 7.2 Photograph of people working in a formal setup but with weak enforcement
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communities in preparing for disasters (Rosenstock et al. 2008). COVID-19 that
appeared at the end of December 2019 in a wet market at Wuhan, China rapidly
spread to a number of countries and was declared a Public Health Emergency of
International Concern by WHO on 30 January 2020 (Mackenzie and Smith 2020).
The virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 infected more than 3300 healthcare
workers in early 2020 in China (Wang et al. 2020a). Poor safety protocols and
breakdown of the emergency response procedures were linked to leak of the styrene
vapour in LG Polymers unit at Visakhapatnam, India on 7 May, resulting in death of
12 people and sickness to 585 others that included general public outside premises
of industry (The Wire 2020). As discussed in Chap. 6, the leakage of poisonous gas
Fig. 7.3 Poverty often pushes people to unsafe practices
Fig. 7.2 Photograph of people working in a formal setup but with weak enforcement
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