COVID-19 and multiple crises in Afghanistan: an urgent battle

The political and military advance of the Taliban, reduced healthcare capacity, and imminent humanitarian crisis risk exacerbating an already very serious threat posed by COVID-19 in Afghanistan. The continued rise of COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan appears inevitable, but poor diagnostic capacity pre...

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Autores principales: Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi, Islam, Zarmina, Riaz, Mehr Muhammad Adeel, Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde, Ahmad, Shoaib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34535160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00406-0
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spelling pubmed-84478012021-09-17 COVID-19 and multiple crises in Afghanistan: an urgent battle Essar, Mohammad Yasir Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi Islam, Zarmina Riaz, Mehr Muhammad Adeel Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde Ahmad, Shoaib Confl Health Letter to the Editor The political and military advance of the Taliban, reduced healthcare capacity, and imminent humanitarian crisis risk exacerbating an already very serious threat posed by COVID-19 in Afghanistan. The continued rise of COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan appears inevitable, but poor diagnostic capacity prevents accurate case measurement, while vaccine provision is extremely limited. This letter highlights how the recent changes in Afghanistan risk exacerbating the COVID-19 and ongoing health emergency in the country. BioMed Central 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8447801/ /pubmed/34535160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00406-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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