NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: India has crossed a crucial milestone in the fight against COVID-19. In a landmark achievement, for the first time, a record number of more than 12 lakh COVID tests have been conducted in a single day.With 12,06,806 tests conducted in the last ...
The daily case numbers are yet to match last year's enormous figures seen during the brutal second wave of COVID-19, while thousands died each day and crematoriums maintained round-the-clock pyres for mass cremation of pandemic victims. Since last Monday, the daily infections have increased ov...
VIENTIANE -- No new COVID-19 case was reported in Laos on Monday, with its total number remaining at 19. The total number of COVID-19 case in Laos remained at 19, as no new case was confirmed, Director General of Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Heal...
Fig. 1. The case fatality rate (CFR) at the peak of the epidemic in the Italian provinces.Source: Italian Ministry of Health (www.salute.gov.it). The aim of this work is to contribute to the existing literature by investigating the main reasons and determinants of COVID-19 CFR at the...
Background: COVID-19 has posed the greatest threat to the world in terms of health and economy. Countries all over the world have acquired different measures to contain COVID-19 spread. Present study focuses on compilation of measures taken by Government of India to fight COVID-19 in major...
An overview of COVID-19 and ageing workforce indicators in each country provide context for the case studies. Fig.1provides an overview of the number of COVID-19 deaths per 1 million population for each country as at 19th June 2021. Countries with fewer than 500 deaths per 1 million popula...
Vietnam reported no new case of COVID-19 infection on Thursday morning, the 14th day in a row. The country has confirmed 270 COVID-19 cases so far, as its most recent case was detected on April 24 and the latest case was reported on April 16. ...
A total of 22,569 patients with the COVID-19 were in hospitals, down by 45 in the last 24 hours. Of those hospitalized, 2,776 people received intensive treatment, a fall of 36 from Saturday, the ministry data showed. - - - - ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on the informal sector, especially in developing countries. Regarding the case study found in Yogyakarta Special Region (Indonesia), this research focuses on workers in the informal sector with the following objectives: (1) to assess the impacts of COVID-...
3.2People have exaggerated prior beliefs about the infectiousness and dangerousness of COVID-19 We now study the accuracy of subject beliefs concerning the infectiousness (R0) and Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of COVID-19. As shown in Fig.2, we find that the overwhelming majority of subject esti...