Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries

N Haider, AY Osman, A Gadzekpo, GO Akipede… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-
19. However, the term 'lockdown'is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO's reference to 'so-called …

Mitigating lockdown challenges in response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

LEG Mboera, GO Akipede, A Banerjee… - International Journal of …, 2020 - ijidonline.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was first reported in Wuhan, China at the
end of 2019 (Luo et al., 2020) has spread across the world with remarkable speed, with the …

COVID-19: lessons and experiences from South Africa's first surge

D Moonasar, A Pillay, E Leonard, R Naidoo… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
On 5 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first case of imported COVID-19. Since then,
cases in South Africa have increased exponentially with significant community transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Are lockdown measures effective against COVID-19?

S Kharroubi, F Saleh - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic progresses, countries around the
world are increasingly implementing a range of responses that are intended to help prevent …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 lockdowns in low-and middle-income countries: Success against COVID-19 at the price of greater costs

SA Madhi, GE Gray, N Ismail, A Izu… - SAMJ: South African …, 2020 - scielo.org.za
The extended lockdown in SA was estimated to have reduced tax revenue collection by a
tectonic ZAR285 billion,[12] in contrast to the ZAR200 billion annual budget in 2020/21 for …

[PDF][PDF] The impact on public health and economy using lockdown as a tool against COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a perspective

RO Nyarko, E Boateng, I Kahwa… - J Epidemiol Public …, 2020 - academia.edu
Background: Since the spread of Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19) most African
countries have embarked on a system of either total or partial lockdown and have used it as …

Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

G Meyerowitz-Katz, S Bhatt, O Ratmann, JM Brauner… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
The claims often include the idea that the benefits of lockdowns on infection control may be
outweighed by the negative impacts on the economy, social structure, education and mental …

Easing of lockdown measures in Nigeria: Implications for the healthcare system

RL Ibrahim, KB Ajide, OO Julius - Health policy and technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The year 2020 was ushered in with a historical novel virus (COVID-19) pandemic in a
manner that the world has never witnessed before. The human-to-human transmission rates …

Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on hospital admissions and mortality in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: interrupted time series analysis

A McIntosh, M Bachmann, MJ Siedner, D Gareta… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the effect of lockdown during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic on daily all-
cause admissions, and by age and diagnosis subgroups, and the odds of all-cause mortality …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: a perspective for lifting lockdown in Zimbabwe

M Dzobo, I Chitungo, T Dzinamarira - The Pan African Medical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) scourge has challenged the world's
health systems and presented multiple socio-economic and public health challenges to the …