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 …

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 …

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 …

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 emergency of COVID-19 has forced many sub-Saharan African (SSA) governments to
lockdown countries. This meant minimizing interaction between individuals through actions …

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 …

COVID-19 exacts huge health and economic burdens on the global economy. To minimize
spread of the virus, most governments of the wealthiest countries implemented lockdowns …

In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers globally have the difficult task of
balancing the positive health effects of lockdowns against their economic costs, particularly …

In the absence of any effective vaccine and clinically proven treatment, experts thought that
strict lockdown measures could be an effective way to slow down the spread of novel …

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 …