Health
All in this together? How rich and poor are travelling in lockdown – The Age
People living in the most advantaged parts of Melbourne can afford to spend more time at home while those in poorer areas often must travel for work.
“The logic makes sense,” says Associate Professor Nick Golding, head of the team advising the government and an epidemic modeller at Curtin University. “Lockdown measures target contacts that can be avoided by people working from home, and non-household contacts. If the majority of a person’s contacts are in the household or in a job that can’t be done remotely, then a lockdown would be expected to have less effect on their transmission potential.”
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