Geographical trend analysis of COVID-19 pandemic onset in Africa

Onafeso, Olumide; Onafeso, Tolulope Esther; Olumuyiwa-Oluwabiyi, Glory Tomi; Faniyi, Michael Olawole; Olusola, Adeyemi; Dina, Adeolu Odutayo; Hassan, Adegbayi Mutiu; Folorunso, Sakinat Oluwabukonla; Adelabu, Samuel; Adagbasa, Efosa Gbenga

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100137

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“…During the harmattan season, dust from the Bodele region mixed with biomass burning in preparation for the farming season and pollution for industrial and vehicular activities provide an active carrier of the virus to the densely packed and interacting population. Contributing factors to the high correlation in Abuja, Edo, and Delta States include the inflow of infected citizens through the international airports in those locations, as well as their economic indices (Onafeso et al, 2021) cultural, and health infrastructure. The cultural stigma associated with having the virus prevents infected individuals from seek help until it is late (Nachega et al, 2021).…”

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The Role of Meteorological Variables and Aerosols in the Transmission of COVID‐19 During Harmattan Season

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The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), originating from the Wuhan region of China, has caused devastating damages across the world. The impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been reported in global transportation (Abu-Rayash & Dincer, 2020) and power system (Gulati et al., 2021). The greatest impact has been on the global health system, overwhelming the health care facilities of many developed and developing countries (Armocida et al., 2020). COVID-19 infections could be asymptomatic, symptomatic or presymptomatic leading to severe forms which require intubation and can lead to death (Lee et al., 2020). For instance, older patients with more than one underlying medical condition (e.g., hypertension, obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases etc.) are more predisposed to severe COVID-19 complications (Fang et al., 2020; R. T. CDC et al., 2020), although younger and healthier patients are more likely to respond faster to treatment (C. CDC et al., 2020;Wang et al., 2020). Multiple organ failure and cardiopulmonary complications, such as myopericarditis, pulmonary embolism and acute respiratory distress syndrome, represent some of the major complications of severe COVID-19. The COVID-19 outbreak has created a global health crisis. There are a total of 171,259,456 COVID-19 cases, 3,567,030 deaths worldwide as of 2 June 2021 (John Hopkins University, 2021) with Nigeria having the highest number of cases (166,534) and deaths (2,099) in West Africa. The first case of COVID-19 incidence was reported on 27 February 2020. Since then the reported confirmed cases increased considerably to about 1,350 cases before the end of the second month. Lagos State, Kano State and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) reported the highest number of cases in Nigeria. The Federal government of Nigeria and various State Governments imposed restrictive measures such suspension of all activities and religious gatherings, indefinite closure of public and private schools/institutions, extension of the travel ban to some countries, suspension of the

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The Role of Meteorological Variables and Aerosols in the Transmission of COVID‐19 During Harmattan Season

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“…This finding further strengthens the role of air travel in COVID-19 transmission. Onafeso et al ( 2021 ) had earlier identified the significance of air traffic in the geographical spread of the disease in Africa. They pointed out, like other scholars, that most of the index cases in Africa were imported from overseas.…”

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A Geographical Analysis of the African COVID-19 Paradox: Putting the Poverty-as-a-Vaccine Hypothesis to the Test

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The poverty-as-a-vaccine hypothesis came to light following the wide circulation of the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service post on the internet and social media. It was a theoretical response to what this paper has termed as “the African COVID-19 paradox” or what some have characterised as the “African COVID-19 anomaly” whose thesis is though Africa is the poorest continent in the world, yet it has some of the lowest COVID-19 infection and mortality rates globally. This paradoxical profile apparently contradicts earlier and grim projections by several international bodies on the fate of Africa in this global health crisis. Given this background, we specifically tested the validity of the hypothesis from a geographic perspective within the spatial framework of Africa. Data came from secondary sources. Evidence truly points out a significant negative relationship between COVID-19 and poverty in Africa and thus statistically supports the poverty-as-a-vaccine hypothesis. However, this does not confirm that poverty confers immunity against COVID-19 but it implicitly shows there are complex factors responsible for the anomaly. The main conclusion of the paper is that poverty has no protective immunity against COVID-19 in Africa and is therefore not tenable.

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“…With travel restrictions in place, it effectively slowed down the spread in the early days of the outbreak (Chinazzi et al 2020; Kraemer et al 2020). In Africa, international travel strongly influenced the spatial pattern of COVID-9 prevalence (Onafeso et al 2021 ; Osayomi et al 2021a , b ).…”

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