3-7 With mass vaccination campaigns occurring worldwide, the hope is that the resulting immunity in the population will not only prevent critical illness and death but also alleviate societal restrictions that are in place to reduce transmission, and thus aid in ending the pandemic. In Sweden, ...
These differences can be explained in particular by the locations where the virus first arrived in Europe, and by the travel restrictions that were enforced to prevent the spread of the virus over space. It is quite likely that spatial differences would still be visible in 2021, due in ...
restrictions were placed on many community gatherings where human-to-human transmission might occur [146]. As a consequence, schools, theatres, universities and dances have been closed. At the same time, mass gatherings, such as marriages and funerals, are...
COVID-19 is the most severe public health crisis that humanity has faced since the beginning of the twenty-first century (Chakraborty and Maity2020; Guo et al.2020). At present, researchers are still in the process of tracing the source of the virus, and discoveries are constantly being mad...
Finally, with the implementation of travel restrictions and border control measures, the condition for COVID-19 improved slightly and there were no new confirmed cases in the city as of 18 February. Fig. 2 The Geographic Distribution of Daily Rates of COVID-19 Cases Across the 3 Periods in...
Restrictions to reduce human interaction have helped to avoid greater suffering and death from the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also created socioeconomic hardship. This disruption is unprecedented in the modern era of global observing networks, pervasive sensing and large-scale tracking of human mobil...
Furthermore, it is well known that the emerging pandemic has disrupted profoundly the age structure of social contacts in human populations worldwide through a combination of mobility restrictions, lockdowns, social distancing, and adaptive conducts driven by self-perceived risk, often associated with...
However, with the complete restrictions on economic, social, educational, religious, and all other activities, this lockdown is turning into a “Blessing in disguise” (Muhammad et al., 2020). The authors attempted to analyze whether these restrictions have their impact on one of the severely ...
Likewise, delaying lockdown also delays the point at which a government becomes either morally or legally responsible for addressing the costs which such restrictions impose upon business. Therefore, ex-ante the expectation was that earlier lockdown meant greater financial cost. Ex-post, it seems ...
“It is easier to climb up to heaven than it is to leave the country”, it was sometimes said of the restrictions that governed pre-1990s communist China. Today, “it is easier to climb up to heaven than it is to return”. Technically, my climb began in early 2020, when I was appo...