Extremely dense populations in urban areas, poor healthcare provision, and limited ability to impose quarantine measures mean that countries in South and South-East Asia, as well as Egypt and Nigeria, look highly exposed to a large-scale coronavirus outbreak. This adds to reasons to think that they will suffer a protracted period of economic weakness.
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