Geography class: Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making

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Specification: 

• Changing spaces, disease dilemmas

Click to read the article below and then answer the questions:

Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making

• Where is the ‘covid triangle’ and why were the odds stacked against the area when the disease struck? (Include reference to rates of child poverty, the informal economy, multigenerational households)

• Explain how government policies since the 1980s have contributed to economic and health inequalities.

• Explain how racial discrimination has contributed to higher covid cases in parts of London.

Alasdair Monteith, Gordonstoun