To combat the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination drives around the world are seen as one of the crucial initiatives. Though some initiatives were taken in this regard for FSWs, they were not enough to meet the required ends. An organization named AINSW (All India Network of Sex Workers) represe...
Australia's two worst-hit states New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria on Monday recorded their lowest numbers of daily COVID-19 cases in the year. NSW reported 14 deaths and 6,184 new infections, marking a further drop on the record low 6,686 reported on Sunday, although the hospitalization...
This section reports instances where large numbers of historical cases or deaths have been reported on a single day. These reports cause anomalous spikes in our time series curves. When available, we liaise with the appropriate health department and distribute the cases or deaths back over the tim...
Australia has successfully contained all past outbreaks through tough social distancing rules, snap lockdowns and internal border controls helping keep its COVID-19 numbers relatively low, with just over 30,300 cases and 910 deaths. Though no local cases were reported in the country for most...
The numbers shown for Ecuador belong to 2016; for Argentina, Australia, Chile and South Africa to 2017; for Brazil to 2018; and for Colombia and Peru to 2019. The last two columns in Table 2 present the total number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 reported by country up until 1 ...
Epidemic curve for NSW. Note the erratic case numbers in recent days. Author provided/Adrian Esterman TheWorld Health Organizationsuggests if it is under 5%, things are under control. When diagnosis was only by PCR test, we had good data on both the number of tests, and the number that we...
“I don’t think it’s going to go much higher in terms of increasing daily numbers, but we also know that when holiday periods come along and there’s a lot more mingling and a lot more social activities, we do see an increase in transmission and therefore that flows on to some i...
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The Covid-19 pandemic affects maternal health both directly and indirectly, and direct and indirect effects are intertwined. To provide a comprehensive overview on this broad topic in a rapid format behooving an emergent pandemic we conducted a scoping r
We should immediately go to level 1, provide everyone with the right information about real numbers and all cause death to put things in perspective. Then give everyone an oxygen meter so they know when to go to hospital if they are sick. Those that don’t get the vaccine will be fine ...