The Impact of COVID–19Lockdown on Dengue Transmission in Sri Lanka;A Natural Experiment for Understanding the Influence of Human Mobilitydoi:10.2139/ssrn.3736156Background: Dengue is one of the major public health problems in Sri Lanka. Its outbreak pattern depends on a multitude of drivers, ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka must ease restrictions gradually, as lifting the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in one go could result in a resurgent of cases, a health official warned. Deputy Health Services Director Dr Hemantha Herath told reporters on Thursday (23) that expert recommendation is a...
While Sri Lanka managed the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak imposing lockdown measures for two months (March to May 2020), it has since been hit by a second outbreak since October 2020 and a third wave in April 2021. The latter is leading to a substantial increase i...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s poultry meat supplies would tighten in the coming weeks as frozen chicken stockpiled during a Coronavirus lockdown end with farmers not growing a new batch and import control disrupting maize for feed, an industry official said. Sri Lanka has kept maize pric...
with the infection [35]. Results of various studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual activity are very different [36,37,38]. Some of these results show that there may be gender-specific differences in the way the lockdown influenced the frequency of sexual intercourse [38...
In this paper, we explore the possible consequences of the criminalization of sex work in Spain through an analysis of the measures adopted during the COVID-19 lockdown, which were tantamount to a prohibition of prostitution. Methods We interviewed 69 female sex workers (19 of them trafficking...
During this period, most customers preferred using online banking services instead of visiting physical branches due to the lockdown. The surge in the number of customers increased the pressure on these services, revealing many defects that directly changed the reputation of Islamic internet banking ...
ABUJA -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the halting of all non-essential movements and activities in the capital Abuja and commercial hub Lagos over the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The lockdown for an initial period of two weeks, which takes effect from ...
Sri Lanka will explore the possibility of utilising indigenous medicine to boost immunity, among other measures, in its fight against COVID-19, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and exacerbates the existing insecurities of sex workers. This paper asks: What are sex workers’ everyday experiences of (in)security? And: How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced these? Methods We engage with these questions through collaborative research ...