Global threat of COVID 19 and evacuation of the citizens of different countries

Abstract

Beginning from China on December 2019, COVID-19 epidemic has spreaded all over the world in a short period of time and has been a pandemic. In challenge with this pandemic quarantine technique has been used widely after tens of years. In the course of the pandemic, many countries evacuated their citizens from affected regions and combined the evacuation with quarantine process. Some examples of these countries who evacuated their citizens are Germany, Italy, Spain, and USA. In further times, during the course of pandemic, according to spread, other countries evacuated their citizens from these countries too. Despite being the origin of the pandemic, in later times Wuhan was also a place where people were evacuated to. Evacuation and quarantine have caused social and psychological impacts on people and some of them took place in mainstream media. In this review article, evacuation and quarantine processes as well as the society's reactions to these, have been compiled.

Experience repatriation of citizens from epicentre using commercial flights during COVID-19 pandemic

“…On the 23rd of January 2020, the Chinese government imposed a strict lockdown to the Hubei province, to prevent the spread of infection, which was successful [ 2 ]. Air and sea travels were some factors associated with the spread of the virus from one region of the globe to another [ 3 ]. As the infection spread beyond China, many healthcare services struggled to cope with the surge in demand for in-patients and critical care interventions.…”

“…Many countries adopted the Chinese government’s earlier intervention imposing lockdown on economic activities, local and international travellers, and students to contain the outbreak [ 4 , 5 ]. The lockdown process creates social and psychological impacts on the societies as a whole [ 3 , 6 ]. Coupled with concern about their citizens’ safety and wellbeing, the Malaysian Government began a repatriation mission called the Humanitarian Aid Disaster Relief (HADR) mission.…”

Experience Repatriation Of Citizens From Epicentre Using Commercial Flights During Covid-19 Pandemic

“…On 23rd of January 2020, the Chinese government imposed strict lockdown to the Hubei province, to prevent the spread of infection and was successful (2). Air and sea travel were some factors associated with the spread of the virus from one region of the globe to another (3). As the infection spread beyond China, many healthcare services struggled to cope with surge in demand for in-patients and critical care interventions.…”

“…Many countries adopted the Chinese government's earlier intervention imposing lockdown on economic activities, local and international travellers and students to contain the outbreak (4,5). The lockdown process creates social and psychological impacts on the societies as a whole (3,6). Coupled with concern about their citizens' safety and wellbeing, Malaysian Government began a repatriation mission called its Humanitarian Aid Disaster Relief (HADR) mission.…”

“…The practise of repatriation of citizens a icted with infectious disease from epicentres has been documented during the Ebola outbreak in Africa involving affected health care workers (7). In the current pandemic, focused on repatriation were more on stranded citizens as illustrated by the government of Malaysia, Indonesia, and few others (3).…”