The global pandemic has an inherently urban character. The UN-Habitat's publication of a Response Plan for mollification of the SARS-CoV-2 based externalities in the cities of the world testifies to that. This article takes the UN-Habitat report as the premise to carry out an empirical investigation in the four major metro cities of India. The report's concern with the urban character of the pandemic has underlined the role of cities in disease transmission. In that wake, the study demarcates factors at the sub-city level that tend to jeopardize the two mandatory precautionary measures during COVID-19 – Social Distancing and Lockdown. It investigates those factors through a Covid Vulnerability Index. The Index devised with the help of Analytic Hierarchy Process demarcates the low, moderate, high, and very high vulnerable city sub-units. Secondly, UN-Habitat's one of the major action areas is evidence-based knowledge creation through mapping and its analysis. In our study, we do it at a granular scale for arriving at a more nuanced understanding. Thus, in harmony with the UN-habitat's we take the urban seriously and identify the gaps that need to be plugged for the pandemic cities of now and of the future.

全球流行病具有本质上的城市特征。联合国人居署发布的缓解世界城市 SARS-CoV-2 外部性的应对计划就证明了这一点。本文以联合国人居署报告为前提，对印度四大都会城市进行实证调查。该报告对这一流行病的城市特征的关注强调了城市在疾病传播中的作用。此后，该研究划定了次城市层面的因素，这些因素往往会危及 COVID-19 期间的两项强制性预防措施——社交距离和封锁。它通过Covid 漏洞指数调查这些因素。该指数在层次分析法的帮助下设计，划分出低、中、高和极高脆弱城市子单元。其次，人居署的主要行动领域之一是通过绘图及其分析来创造基于证据的知识。在我们的研究中，我们进行了更细致的研究，以便获得更细致的理解。因此，与联合国人居署的协调一致，我们认真对待城市，并确定现在和未来的大流行城市需要弥补的差距。