Universal checklist for COVID-19 control measures: consensus via a Delphi method

Sharma, Akash; Venkatesh, U; Dong, Vinh; Raut, Akshay; Tawfik, Gehad Mohamed; Ng, Sze Jia; Ramly, Toka Aziz El; Nam, Nguyen Hai; Pavlenko, Dmytro; Alied, Marcel; Elnazir, Pierre; Marabea, Mahmoud El; Dumre, Shyam Prakash; Elsayad, A.; Alqudah, Qusai; Hegab, Mohamed Ahmed; Zakaria, Safia Yahia; Nguyen, Anh Phuc Nguyet; ElHawary, Ahmed Sallam; Huy, Nguyen Tien

doi:10.7861/clinmed.21-2-s25

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“…Nepal initiated an early lockdown in order to buy time to prepare the country to respond to the pandemic [ 28 ]. This approach to lockdown differed to that applied in other countries, in which restrictions on the population were imposed only after significant numbers of deaths had occurred [ 29 ]. Although there is, perhaps, an argument to be made for a universal, WHO-sanctioned protocol for the implementation of lockdown measures at a country level during a pandemic, differences between countries at the political, population and environmental levels make this unrealistic.…”

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How an Outbreak of COVID-19 Circulated Widely in Nepal: A Chronological Analysis of the National Response to an Unprecedented Pandemic

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The first COVID-19 case in Nepal was reported in January 2020 in a Nepalese man who had returned from Wuhan to Nepal. This study aims to evaluate the government of Nepal’s (GoN) response to the COVID-19 pandemic and explore ways to prevent COVID-19 and other pandemic diseases in the future. As of May 2022, a total of 979,140 cases and 11,951 deaths associated with COVID-19 have been reported in Nepal. To prevent the spread of the virus, the GoN initiated various preventive and control measures, including lockdown strategies. The effects of COVID-19 are expected to persist for many years; the best strategies a resource-limited country such as Nepal can implement to control pandemic diseases such as COVID-19 in the pre-vaccine stage are to increase testing, tracing, and isolation capacity.

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How an Outbreak of COVID-19 Circulated Widely in Nepal: A Chronological Analysis of the National Response to an Unprecedented Pandemic

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“…During the pandemic, due to the unavailability of authorized vaccines and effective antiviral therapies, school closure was represented as one of the main control measures to mitigate the circulation of COVID-19 in many countries in the world even though its efficacy is still debatable 9,13 . Based on the evidence retrieved from the experience of the seasonal and pandemic influenza outbreaks 6 , the possibility of transmitting the disease via direct contacts 14 , and a universal consensus of COVID-19 control measures 15 , school closure in the era of COVID-19 is expected to limit the infection rate, especially within the vulnerable population such as students. School closure was applied in Japan from early March to June 10 in compliance with a government advisory and the measure consequently changed the daily activities of Japanese citizens.…”

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Impacts of school closure due to COVID-19 on the mobility trend of Japanese citizens

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School closure was the only main control measure that Japan took into action from late February to late March in 2020. Accurate evaluation of how Japanese citizens responded to the impact of school closure remains a challenge. Data from the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report was used to analyze the mobility trend of Japanese citizens regarding six categories, including retail and recreation, grocery and pharmacy, parks, transit stations, workplace, and residential. The median percentage of mobility in all 47 prefectures of Japan was calculated during five periods of time, including one week before school closure, one week, two weeks, three weeks, and four weeks after school closure. There was a significant decline in the mobility trend of transit stations, grocery and pharmacy, parks, retail and recreation, and workplace at the moment after school closure compared to the prior period. Inversely, the mobility trend in staying at home remarkably increased following the implementation of school closure. Our study determined a significant change in the mobility trend of Japanese citizens before and after school closure. These data reflected the responsibility and the consciousness of Japanese citizens in mitigating COVID-19.

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Universal checklist for COVID-19 control measures: consensus via a Delphi method

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How an Outbreak of COVID-19 Circulated Widely in Nepal: A Chronological Analysis of the National Response to an Unprecedented Pandemic

How an Outbreak of COVID-19 Circulated Widely in Nepal: A Chronological Analysis of the National Response to an Unprecedented Pandemic

Impacts of school closure due to COVID-19 on the mobility trend of Japanese citizens

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