Spatial Features of Covid-2019 Diffusion in Russian Regions: the View of the Transport Geographer
Journal: GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY
Year: 2022

The purpose of the article was to analyze the spatial spread of COVID-2019 in the regions of Russia in comparison with European countries in 2020–21 from a transport-geographical point of view. The article reveals interregional differences in the number of cases and the incidence (sickness) rate as of August 1, 2021 for individual regions of Russia. The coronavirus entered two Russian regions directly from Wuhan (China) and eight regions from Northern Italy. The first virus carriers arrived by a