The effect of lockdown regulations on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in Gauteng Province, South Africa

J Pillai, P Motloba, KSC Motaung… - SAMJ: South African …, 2020 - scielo.org.za
PILLAI, J et al. The effect of lockdown regulations on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in Gauteng
Province, South Africa. SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j.[online]. 2020, vol. 110, n. 11, pp. 1119-1123 …

[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 …

Proposed strategies for easing COVID-19 lockdown measures in Africa

DL Kitara, EN Ikoona - Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 - ajol.info
As SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread across the globe, short-term modeling forecasts provided
time-critical information for containment and mitigation strategies. Global projections had so …

Decisive or impulsive? Re-examining Africa's lockdown response to COVID-19

AJ Alaran, AO Badmos, O Bouaddi, YA Adebisi… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2022 - Springer
Due to the high transmission rate and mortality index of the current coronavirus pandemic,
many settings in Africa instituted lockdowns to reduce its rate of spread and avert …

[PDF][PDF] Effectiveness of lockdown (from 30th march to 30th may, 2020) in curbing the spread of coronavirus: Lagos, Abuja and Ogun as a case study

DG Muhammad - Yen Med J, 2020 - researchgate.net
World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11th March 2020
due to its large-scale spread across the world. 1 The first case in Nigeria was reported on 27 …

Impact of level five lockdown on the incidence of COVID-19: lessons learned from South Africa

F Made, W Utembe, K Wilson, N Naicker… - Pan African Medical …, 2021 - ajol.info
Introduction: the level five (L5) lockdown was a very stringent social distancing measure
taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections. This study assessed the impact of the L5 …

Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries

N Haider, AY Osman, A Gadzekpo, GO Akipede… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-
19. However, the term 'lockdown'is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO's reference to 'so-called …

Coronavirus (Covid-19): the lockdown strategy in Nigeria

E Ekienabor - 2020 - preprints.org
The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already taken on pandemic proportions …

A proposed framework to limit post-lockdown community transmission of COVID-19 in Africa

EN Ikoona, DL Kitara - Pan African Medical Journal, 2021 - ajol.info
Abstract As of March 11, 2021, 3,992,044 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and
106,615 deaths (case fatality rate 2.67%) have been reported on the African continent. In …

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 …