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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …