COVID-19 and the Nigerian correctional service: need for structured data

Although prisoners are considered a vulnerable population, no data repository currently exists to monitor the COVID-19 incidence in Nigerian prisons. To better understand the impact of COVID-19 within the Nigerian prison system, prisons should develop detailed COVID-19 response protocols, implement...

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Autores principales: Qureshi, Asma, Kashim, Ima, Akintorin, Similolu, Unruh, Larissa, Dharmapuri, Sadhana, Soyemi, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343796
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.37.1.25370
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Dharmapuri, Sadhana
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description Although prisoners are considered a vulnerable population, no data repository currently exists to monitor the COVID-19 incidence in Nigerian prisons. To better understand the impact of COVID-19 within the Nigerian prison system, prisons should develop detailed COVID-19 response protocols, implement enhanced point-of-care testing, and initiate contact tracing with meticulous data collection.
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spelling pubmed-77333512020-12-18 COVID-19 and the Nigerian correctional service: need for structured data Qureshi, Asma Kashim, Ima Akintorin, Similolu Unruh, Larissa Dharmapuri, Sadhana Soyemi, Kenneth Pan Afr Med J Brief Although prisoners are considered a vulnerable population, no data repository currently exists to monitor the COVID-19 incidence in Nigerian prisons. To better understand the impact of COVID-19 within the Nigerian prison system, prisons should develop detailed COVID-19 response protocols, implement enhanced point-of-care testing, and initiate contact tracing with meticulous data collection. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7733351/ /pubmed/33343796 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.37.1.25370 Text en Copyright: Asma Qureshi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733351/
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