Worldwide, the trajectory of COVID-19 patients caused by SARS-CoV-2 has continued to rise since first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China1,2,3. As of May 1st, 2021, global patients exceeded 163 million with USA reporting the largest caseload and India—the world's second most popu...
We are in the process of taking steps, and I hope that we will have some to continue the vaccination campaign, adding that "countries are appropriating as many vaccines as they can,"vaccines have been received from India (AstraZeneca and Covaxin), from WHO through Covax (AstraZeneca), and...
most countries experienced at least one lockdown. In Italy a full national lockdown, lasting more than two months, started on March 9, 2020, anticipating by two days the formal pandemic declaration by the WHO. Other European countries (e.g., France, Spain) followed...
We investigated the COVID-19 induced lockdown effects in India through an interrupted time series analysis coupled with a survey result of 729 consumers, 225 farmers and synthesis of the literature evidence on food loss as well as food waste. Our article complements the literature inventory on ...
The necessary information to disaggregate the lockdown-related CF into actual shares of economic sectorial CFs was still not available at the date this study was performed. Therefore, it can be assumed that the abovementioned key-contributing sectors have undergone substantial changes in March and Ap...
We considered the onset of a country’s initial lockdown as the date at which the stringency score first exceeded 50 on the Oxford Stringency Index (range 0–100). This cut-off was pre-specified in the study protocol and based on expert advice. For dates of lockdown that occurred between...
of India order dated 24 March 2020 issued guidelines for containment of COVID-19 pandemic in the country, whereby barring few industries, it was declared that industrial establishments will be closed. However, vide another order date 24 March 2020, the restrictions of lockdown were excluded inter...
3) A DATE IN THE KITCHEN Tired of cooking everyday with no domestic help available given the current circumstances? Bring that guy along into the kitchen who vowed to stand by your side always and then cook something special or maybe experiment on an altogether new recipe. What could be mor...
In Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro dismisses covid-19 as “the sniffles”; in India the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party blames it on the Muslims. President Donald Trump claimed he had “total” authority, demonstrating something about his instincts if not his knowledge of the American constitution....
(2021) have observed that the lockdown improved the air quality in India by 31–54%, 15–44%, and 17.75–20.70%, respectively. Compared to non-lockdown periods, the national or city-scale air quality improvement for Thailand (Kaewrat et al., 2022), Korea (Seo et al., 2020), and ...