The recently emerged novel coronavirus,“severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2)”, caused a highly contagious disease called coronavirus disease 2019 …

In December 2019, a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2) and associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was …

Over the last 14 months, Africa and the entire world experienced the worst Socioeconomic
challenges of alarming proportion. Specifically, on 30 December 2019, an epidemiological …

On December 31st, 2019 an unexplained case of pneumonia was reported in Wuhan, Hubei
Province, China (Zhou et al. 2020). On January 9th, 2020, Chinese authorities and the World …

The world has experienced several epidemics posing serious threat to global public health,
including the 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic that caused 800 …

The differential spread and impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), across regions is a major …

Abstract To date, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) has spread to almost every
region of the world, infecting millions and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of …

Africa has faced epidemics throughout its history, from smallpox to recurrent epidemics of
malaria, sleeping sickness, and many other lethal diseases. The spread of HIV infection …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and represents a potentially fatal disease of great global public …

Soon after the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), was first identified in a cluster
of patients with pneumonia (Li et al., 2020), in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 31 December …