Unique challenges to control the spread of COVID-19 in the Middle East

The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading at unprecedented pace among the Middle East and neighboring countries. This region is geographically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously a very sensitive area, which impose unique challenges for effective control of this epidemic. These challenge...

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Autores principales: Baloch, Zulqarnain, Ma, Zhongren, Ji, Yunpeng, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Pan, Qiuwei, Aljabr, Waleed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2020
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Short Communucation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32690454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.06.034
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author Baloch, Zulqarnain
Ma, Zhongren
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Pan, Qiuwei
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description The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading at unprecedented pace among the Middle East and neighboring countries. This region is geographically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously a very sensitive area, which impose unique challenges for effective control of this epidemic. These challenges include compromised healthcare systems, prolonged regional conflicts and humanitarian crises, suboptimal levels of transparency and cooperation, and frequent religious gatherings. These factors are interrelated and collectively determine the response to the pandemic in this region. Here, we in-depth emphasize these challenges and take a glimpse of possible solutions towards mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73575172020-07-13 Unique challenges to control the spread of COVID-19 in the Middle East Baloch, Zulqarnain Ma, Zhongren Ji, Yunpeng Ghanbari, Mohsen Pan, Qiuwei Aljabr, Waleed J Infect Public Health Short Communucation The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading at unprecedented pace among the Middle East and neighboring countries. This region is geographically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously a very sensitive area, which impose unique challenges for effective control of this epidemic. These challenges include compromised healthcare systems, prolonged regional conflicts and humanitarian crises, suboptimal levels of transparency and cooperation, and frequent religious gatherings. These factors are interrelated and collectively determine the response to the pandemic in this region. Here, we in-depth emphasize these challenges and take a glimpse of possible solutions towards mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2020-09 2020-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7357517/ /pubmed/32690454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.06.034 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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