COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation

AE Bates, RB Primack, P Moraga, CM Duarte - Biological conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Efforts to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) have led to the
unprecedented concurrent confinement of nearly two-thirds of the global population. The …

[HTML][HTML] Reprint of: Air travel and COVID-19 prevention in the pandemic and peri-pandemic period: A narrative review

M Bielecki, D Patel, J Hinkelbein, M Komorowski… - Travel medicine and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for travellers, airlines, airports,
health authorities, and governments. We reviewed multiple aspects of COVID peri-pandemic …

Social costs of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic

RTR Qiu, J Park, SN Li, H Song - Annals of tourism research, 2020 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is currently spreading across the
world at an alarming rate, resulting in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Amidst this …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 e saúde mental: a emergência do cuidado

A Faro, MA Bahiano, TC Nakano, C Reis… - Estudos de psicologia …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Considerando-se a situação atual mundial, marcada por importantes crises na saúde
pública e, mais recentemente, a pandemia causada pela COVID-19, o presente artigo …

Does lockdown reduce air pollution? Evidence from 44 cities in northern China

R Bao, A Zhang - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Responding to the ongoing novel coronavirus (agent of COVID-19) outbreak, China
implemented “the largest quarantine in human history” in Wuhan on 23 January 2020 …

Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

H Fang, L Wang, Y Yang - Journal of Public Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of
Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 outbreak response, a dataset to assess mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown

E Pepe, P Bajardi, L Gauvin, F Privitera, B Lake… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Italy has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting the highest death toll
in Europe as of April 2020. Following the identification of the first infections, on February 21 …

[HTML][HTML] Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against importations of COVID-19: a modelling study

M Gilbert, G Pullano, F Pinotti, E Valdano, C Poletto… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has spread from
China to 25 countries. Local cycles of transmission have already occurred in 12 countries …

<? covid19?> COVID-19: facts, cultural considerations, and risk of stigmatization

DP Bruns, NV Kraguljac… - Journal of transcultural …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Data on COVID-19 supports targeted social distancing could be an effective way to reduce
morbidity and mortality, but could inadvertently increase stigma for affected populations. As …

[HTML][HTML] Decline in Mobility: Public Transport in Poland in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

M Wielechowski, K Czech, Ł Grzęda - Economies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of the paper is to assess changes in mobility in public transport in Poland, as a
consequence of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse the problem from …