In Chicago, more than 50% of COVID-19 cases and nearly 70% of COVID-19 deaths involve black individuals, although blacks make up only 30% of the population. Moreover, these deaths are concentrated mostly in just 5 neighborhoods on the city’s South Side.6In Louisiana, 70.5% of deaths ...
Scientific evidence has an important role in policy decisions1. This has been increasingly true of evidence from the behavioural and social sciences2, particularly for public health policy throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic4,5. One broad challenge in this process is that there is no universa...
3) of existing data (https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19) in six countries shows that the dates of first confirmed case are on March 5 (South Africa), February 14 (Egypt), February 25 (Algeria), February 28 (Nigeria), March 2 (Senegal), March 13 (Kenya), respectively. ...
Of those, the largest number of COVID-19 patients is reported in South Africa with about 5300 cases and 100 (about 1.9%) deaths as of April 30, 20202, 8. Across all these countries, the total number of cases is increasing. Due to heterogeneous conditions and often broadly undersampled ...
19 in Africa and less still when it comes to literature on COVID-19 pandemic in the fragile states. In this forum, Dr. Joseph Francis Wamala shares the lessons from the Republic of South Sudan on how this fragile state has been affected by COVID-19 amidst other humanitarian challenges. ...
Covid-19 pandemic affected farmers and agricultural workers in various ways (Rawal and Verma, 2020; Narayanan and Saha, 2020; Narayanan, 2020; Kim, et al., 2020). South Asian countries have taken very stringent policy measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Barring a few essential...
The profound impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to an increased demand for sustainable pandemic governance practices. This study explored emerging hybrid governance practices that provide robust evidence on how to address the complex challe
Governments have also shown increased willingness to collaborate with the private sector. Martin Kingston, Chair of the Business for South Africa Steering Committee, told us: “In just a short time, we have demonstrated a high degree of collaboration between the private and public sectors.” There...
COVID-19 remains a significant public health problem in New South Wales, Australia. Although the NSW government is employing various control policies, more specific and compelling interventions are needed to control the spread of COVID-19. This paper presents a modified SEIR-X model based on a ...
given that it has received the most significant impact from the business closure policy in the previous stage. The number of daily COVID-19 cases is still negatively associated with labor market performance. Thus far, all three hypotheses proposed in this paper are supported. The regional differen...