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Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries
INTRODUCTION: There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in South Asia, but the region has done well in mounting an appropriate response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19 are lower despite case surges similar to the rest...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33370566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.048 |
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author | Babu, Giridhara R. Khetrapal, Sonalini John, Daisy A. Deepa, R. Narayan, K.M. Venkat |
author_facet | Babu, Giridhara R. Khetrapal, Sonalini John, Daisy A. Deepa, R. Narayan, K.M. Venkat |
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description | INTRODUCTION: There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in South Asia, but the region has done well in mounting an appropriate response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19 are lower despite case surges similar to the rest of the world. RESULTS: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring vulnerabilities of the health system. In addition, the high burden of non-communicable diseases in South Asia multiplies the complexities in combating present and future health crises. The advantage offered by the younger population demographics in South Asia may not be sustained with the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and lack of priority setting for improving health systems. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a window for introspection, scaling up preparedness for future pandemics, and improving the health of the population overall. |
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spelling | pubmed-78363802021-01-26 Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries Babu, Giridhara R. Khetrapal, Sonalini John, Daisy A. Deepa, R. Narayan, K.M. Venkat Int J Infect Dis Review INTRODUCTION: There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in South Asia, but the region has done well in mounting an appropriate response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19 are lower despite case surges similar to the rest of the world. RESULTS: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring vulnerabilities of the health system. In addition, the high burden of non-communicable diseases in South Asia multiplies the complexities in combating present and future health crises. The advantage offered by the younger population demographics in South Asia may not be sustained with the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and lack of priority setting for improving health systems. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a window for introspection, scaling up preparedness for future pandemics, and improving the health of the population overall. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021-03 2020-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7836380/ /pubmed/33370566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.048 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. |
spellingShingle | Review Babu, Giridhara R. Khetrapal, Sonalini John, Daisy A. Deepa, R. Narayan, K.M. Venkat Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title | Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title_full | Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title_fullStr | Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title_short | Pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 in South Asian countries |
title_sort | pandemic preparedness and response to covid-19 in south asian countries |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33370566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.048 |
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