Decisive or impulsive? Re-examining Africa’s lockdown response to COVID-19

Due to the high transmission rate and mortality index of the current coronavirus pandemic, many settings in Africa instituted lockdowns to reduce its rate of spread and avert exponential growth rate. At the early stage, this measure seemed to heighten awareness of the virus and subsequently minimize...

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Autores principales: Alaran, Aishat Jumoke, Badmos, Abubakar Olaitan, Bouaddi, Oumnia, Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo, Ben-Umeh, Kenechukwu, Idris, Umarfarouq, Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35260200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00414-7
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Badmos, Abubakar Olaitan
Bouaddi, Oumnia
Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo
Ben-Umeh, Kenechukwu
Idris, Umarfarouq
Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo
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description Due to the high transmission rate and mortality index of the current coronavirus pandemic, many settings in Africa instituted lockdowns to reduce its rate of spread and avert exponential growth rate. At the early stage, this measure seemed to heighten awareness of the virus and subsequently minimized exponential growth of cases. However, these lockdowns have had great consequences on the weak health systems and frail economy in place in many African countries. In this paper, we examine the impact of lockdown measures in these countries and provides key recommendations in dealing with present and future pandemics.
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spelling pubmed-89027322022-03-08 Decisive or impulsive? Re-examining Africa’s lockdown response to COVID-19 Alaran, Aishat Jumoke Badmos, Abubakar Olaitan Bouaddi, Oumnia Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Ben-Umeh, Kenechukwu Idris, Umarfarouq Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor Due to the high transmission rate and mortality index of the current coronavirus pandemic, many settings in Africa instituted lockdowns to reduce its rate of spread and avert exponential growth rate. At the early stage, this measure seemed to heighten awareness of the virus and subsequently minimized exponential growth of cases. However, these lockdowns have had great consequences on the weak health systems and frail economy in place in many African countries. In this paper, we examine the impact of lockdown measures in these countries and provides key recommendations in dealing with present and future pandemics. BioMed Central 2022-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8902732/ /pubmed/35260200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00414-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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/) .
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Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo
Ben-Umeh, Kenechukwu
Idris, Umarfarouq
Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902732/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00414-7
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