What led to upsurge of COVID-19 cases in Malawi? Public health perspective

The health system in Malawi has been overwhelmed with the growing number of COVID-19 cases during second wave of attack. The number of confirmed cases and case fatality rate has significantly increased as compared to the first episode between the months of January to June 2020. Majority of cases rep...

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Autores principales: Chimatiro, Chancy Skenard, Hajison, Precious Luwidzyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34122696
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.269.28338
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description The health system in Malawi has been overwhelmed with the growing number of COVID-19 cases during second wave of attack. The number of confirmed cases and case fatality rate has significantly increased as compared to the first episode between the months of January to June 2020. Majority of cases reported are through internal transmission, with no history of international travelling. Those in urban areas are most affected as compared to rural areas. Strict preventive measures with multi-sectoral collaboration are urgently required to curb the further spread of the disease. This paper discusses some of the factors that have led to upsurge of COVID-19 cases in Malawi from public health perspective.
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spelling pubmed-81799862021-06-11 What led to upsurge of COVID-19 cases in Malawi? Public health perspective Chimatiro, Chancy Skenard Hajison, Precious Luwidzyi Pan Afr Med J Perspectives The health system in Malawi has been overwhelmed with the growing number of COVID-19 cases during second wave of attack. The number of confirmed cases and case fatality rate has significantly increased as compared to the first episode between the months of January to June 2020. Majority of cases reported are through internal transmission, with no history of international travelling. Those in urban areas are most affected as compared to rural areas. Strict preventive measures with multi-sectoral collaboration are urgently required to curb the further spread of the disease. This paper discusses some of the factors that have led to upsurge of COVID-19 cases in Malawi from public health perspective. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8179986/ /pubmed/34122696 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.269.28338 Text en Copyright: Chancy Skenard Chimatiro 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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