COVID-19 is causing a global pandemic with a high number of deaths and infected people. To contain the diffusion of COVID-19 virus, Governments have enforced restrictions on outdoor activities or even collective quarantine on the population. One important consequence of quarantine is a change in...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that the COVID-19 pandemic is the most challenging crisis since World War II. The pandemic "represents a threat to everybody in the world and ... it has an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no para...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened global mental health, both indirectly via disruptive societal changes and directly via neuropsychiatric sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite a small increase in self-reported mental health problems, this has (so far) not translat...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique risks to people with Alzheimer disease and dementia. Research from 2020 has shown that these people have a relatively high risk of contracting severe COVID-19, and are also at risk of neuropsychiatric disturbances as a result of lockdown measures and soci...
ADDIS ABABA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the socio-economic condition of "almost all African countries" and appears to worsen dramatically as the tourism, air transport and the oil industry sectors "visibly impacted," according to a new report published by the ...
Objectives To determine whether clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) children or children living with a CEV person in Wales were at greater risk of presenting with anxiety or depression in primary or secondary care during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with children in the general population and ...
We assessed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for ischemic heart disease during the lockdown imposed by the Italian Government.We retrospectively reviewed the number and the findings of stress single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)-MPI performed ...
While these have been the immediate effects of Covid-19 pandemic on the sharing economy and on the accommodation sharing, we must now ask what kind of recovery can be expected for this sector in the post-pandemic world. 4. The post-covid-19 recovery: opportunities and challenges Based on ...
COVID-19 pandemic compelled many countries in the world to go for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. India started the lockdown on 24 March 2020. We analyzed the air quality of three megacities of India, namely Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata, during the lockdown ...
Acta Geophysica (2023) 71:1085–1097 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-01005-0 RESEARCH ARTICLE - ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE SCIENCES Effect of COVID‑19 pandemic restrictions on air pollution at a local scale in urban areas affected by high‑intensity vehicle traffic in Poland ...