How does violent conflict affect the spread of Covid-19?
A few days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the former Dutch Ambassador to Ukraine told BBC that his parents-in-law did not dare to go to a refugee shelter because they were afraid to contract Covid-19. This vivid example links violence and forced displacement with the Covid-19 pandemic. Sepahvand and Verwimp study this link using unique detailed panel data from
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-does-violent-conflict-affect-spread-covid-19 - 2025-10-23
