[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: a perspective for lifting lockdown in Zimbabwe

M Dzobo, I Chitungo, T Dzinamarira - The Pan African Medical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) scourge has challenged the world's
health systems and presented multiple socio-economic and public health challenges to the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 in South Africa: lockdown strategy and its effects on public health and other contagious diseases

S Hatefi, F Smith, K Abou-El-Hossein, J Alizargar - Public Health, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current global pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is severely
affecting the global health system. There is no treatment or vaccine available for COVID-19 …

COVID-19 lockdowns in low-and middle-income countries: Success against COVID-19 at the price of greater costs

SA Madhi, GE Gray, N Ismail, A Izu… - SAMJ: South African …, 2020 - scielo.org.za
The extended lockdown in SA was estimated to have reduced tax revenue collection by a
tectonic ZAR285 billion,[12] in contrast to the ZAR200 billion annual budget in 2020/21 for …

How South Africa's ministerial advisory committee on COVID-19 can be optimised

JA Singh - South African Medical Journal, 2020 - journals.co.za
South Africa (SA) recorded its first COVID-19 case on 5 March 2020. Since then, the country
has declared a State of Disaster on 15 March 2020,[1] a strict 3-week 'lockdown', effective 26 …

COVID-19: lessons and experiences from South Africa's first surge

D Moonasar, A Pillay, E Leonard, R Naidoo… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
On 5 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first case of imported COVID-19. Since then,
cases in South Africa have increased exponentially with significant community transmission …

Easing of lockdown measures in Nigeria: Implications for the healthcare system

RL Ibrahim, KB Ajide, OO Julius - Health policy and technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The year 2020 was ushered in with a historical novel virus (COVID-19) pandemic in a
manner that the world has never witnessed before. The human-to-human transmission rates …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic, Uganda's story

DL Kitara, EN Ikoona - The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage health care systems, economies,
livelihoods, and cultures across the world, responses across countries have varied greatly …

[HTML][HTML] The generals and the war against COVID-19: The case of Zimbabwe

N Maulani, IN Nyadera, B Wandekha - Journal of global health, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over three decades of economic crisis, characterised by hyper-inflation, unemployment, and
corruption, overall public service delivery in Zimbabwe including the health sector has been …

Mitigating lockdown challenges in response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

LEG Mboera, GO Akipede, A Banerjee… - International Journal of …, 2020 - ijidonline.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was first reported in Wuhan, China at the
end of 2019 (Luo et al., 2020) has spread across the world with remarkable speed, with the …

[HTML][HTML] Essential health services delivery in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives and recommendations

G Murewanhema, R Makurumidze - The Pan African Medical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zimbabwe reported its first case of COVID-19 on 20 March 2020, and since then the number
has increased to over 4000. To contain the spread of the causative SARS-CoV-2 and …