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Background: The COVID-19 epidemic that has been going on since December 2019 and caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has spread rapidly around the world and has been classified as a pandemic. The health systems of African countries, especially those of West Africa, are still primitive and there is growing concern about the care of infected people....
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Food of animal origin is an important source of proteins for human beings. However, they are subject to microbial contamination. It is essential to ensure the safety of food products intended for school children regarding their vulnerability to food poisoning. Good sanitary quality of these products requires the respect of good practices during the...
Background: The COVID-19 epidemic that has been going on since December 2019 and caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has spread rapidly around the world and has been classified as a pandemic. The health systems of African countries, especially those of West Africa, are still primitive and there is growing concern about thecare of infected people....
Food of animal origin is an important source of proteins for human beings. However, they are subject to microbial contamination. It is essential to ensure the safety of food products intended for school children regarding their vulnerability to food poisoning. Good sanitary quality of these products requires the respect of good practices during the...
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... More updated results based on reports from the Iraqi association for medical research and studies (IAMRS) accessed on the 28 th of April 2020 [18] revealed that the total number of positive cases increased to 1928, total deaths of 90, and 1319 cases recovered and discharged from hospitals. The report added that within 24 hours prior to the report, 81 new cases were added and 33 cases have been completely recovered [19]. This means that COVID-19 has not been controlled at that time even with the lockdown and the current restrictions. ...
... As for the studies related to the recent study, although a number of studies, over the world, aimed to explore people's awareness of COVID-19 have been carried out, it was rarely studied in the context of Yemen. While some of those studies were performed on a sample selected from the health care workers (HCWs), other studies were carried out on a sample of students, or some peoples else (Zhou et al., 2020;Deguenon et al., 2020;Taghrir, et al., 2020;Peng et al., 2020). Besides, some studies used questionnaires for collecting data (Zhou et al., 2020;Taghrir, et al., 2020;Peng et al., 2020), while others used an interview for the same purpose (Zhou et al., 2020). ...
This study aimed to explore Amran University educators' awareness (AUEs'A) toward COVID-19. To fulfil this aim, an on line survey using a scale of COVID-19 (SCOVID-19) was used to collect data from a sample consisted of 87 participants selected from 206 of Amran University's educators and their assistants. Descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and multiple regression (MR) were applied to analyze data. Results of the study revealed that participants had a good awareness about this pandemic; since they had a very good knowledge and positive attitudes and practice towards it. Besides, results of t-test revealed that there are no differences between the mean scores of AUEs'A on the SCOVID-19 at (α=0.05) referred to gender and specialization variables. In addition, results of one-way ANOVA revealed that there are no statically significant differences between and within groups' mean scores on the scales of knowledge, and practice referred to the participants' degree of education variable (DEV), while significant differences on the attitudes scale referred to this variable and the differences were in favor of professor degree. Also results revealed significant differences referred to the faculty variable (FV) only on the knowledge and attitudes scales and the differences were in favor of faculty of medicine. According to MR, results revealed a positive correlation between the variables. Also an effect of independent variables (IVs), i.e. knowledge and attitudes, on the dependent variable (DV), i.e. practice, at (α=0.05) was revealed by these results. based on the results of the study, some recommendations were recommended.
... More updated results based on reports from the Iraqi association for medical research and studies (IAMRS) accessed on the 28 th of April 2020 [18] revealed that the total number of positive cases increased to 1928, total deaths of 90, and 1319 cases recovered and discharged from hospitals. The report added that within 24 hours prior to the report, 81 new cases were added and 33 cases have been completely recovered [19]. This means that COVID-19 has not been controlled at that time even with the lockdown and the current restrictions. ...
On the 31st of December 2019, China reported several pneumonia-like infections
in Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Ten days later, a novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was announced by the Chinese center for disease
control (CCDC). At that time, the genome sequence was publicly made available.
The genome sequence analysis of the newly identified virus was found similar to
75-80% of the SARS-CoV clade and more than 88% of bat corona viruses. On
January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of
emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic. In March 2020, the WHO raised a
state of emergency and declared that COVID-19 has become a pandemic.
Unfortunately, Iraq confirmed the first cases of COVID-19 in February 2020. On
April 25th, 46,135 tests were conducted in Iraq with 1763 positive cases.
Although Iraq is making great efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic
stimulating all the available capabilities, such as having a full lockdown and
teaching people about the sickness danger, the numbers of cases and deaths
started to dramatically increase in June. Now, on the 2nd of July, the infection
and death cases were around 54 K and 2.2 K, respectively. Herein, we outline the
challenges that the Iraqi health sector is facing to control the spread of COVID-19
with procedures followed so far. This could assist in understanding the severity of
the situation and end up with a realistic understanding of it.
... More updated results based on reports from the Iraqi association for medical research and studies (IAMRS) accessed on the 28 th of April 2020 [18] revealed that the total number of positive cases increased to 1928, total deaths of 90, and 1319 cases recovered and discharged from hospitals. The report added that within 24 hours prior to the report, 81 new cases were added and 33 cases have been completely recovered [19]. This means that COVID-19 has not been controlled at that time even with the lockdown and the current restrictions. ...
On the 31st of December 2019, China reported several pneumonia-like infections in Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Ten days later, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was announced by the Chinese center for disease control (CCDC). At that time, the genome sequence was publicly made available. The genome sequence analysis of the newly identified virus was found similar to 75-80% of the SARS-CoV clade and more than 88% of bat corona viruses. On January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic. In March 2020, the WHO raised a state of emergency and declared that COVID-19 has become a pandemic. Unfortunately, Iraq confirmed the first cases of COVID-19 in February 2020. On April 25th, 46,135 tests were conducted in Iraq with 1763 positive cases. Although Iraq is making great efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic stimulating all the available capabilities, such as having a full lockdown and teaching people about the sickness danger, the numbers of cases and deaths started to dramatically increase in June. Now, on the 2nd of July, the infection and death cases were around 54 K and 2.2 K, respectively. Herein, we outline the challenges that the Iraqi health sector is facing to control the spread of COVID-19 with procedures followed so far. This could assist in understanding the severity of the situation and end up with a realistic understanding of it.
Data Science for COVID-19, Volume 2: Societal and Medical Perspectives presents the most current and leading-edge research into the applications of a variety of data science techniques for the detection, mitigation, treatment and elimination of the COVID-19 virus. At this point, Cognitive Data Science is the most powerful tool for researchers to fight COVID-19. Thanks to instant data-analysis and predictive techniques, including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, and computational modeling for processing large amounts of data, recognizing patterns, modeling new techniques, and improving both research and treatment outcomes is now possible.
The prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exacerbated investor fears, uncertainties, and increased volatility in financial markets. The reaction to oil prices gradually absorbed the epidemic until March 08, but the market situation changed soon with a sharp drop in prices until April 17. This study aims to verify the impact of COVID-19 cases on crude oil prices and the Saudi economy. A simple linear regression estimate shows that new daily outbreaks have a marginally negative impact on crude oil prices in the short term. However, COVID-19 also has an indirect effect on the recent volatility in crude oil prices.
Solutions include proactive management, and we emphasize that special consideration must be given to the size of the supply to properly forecast oil prices. Volatility dominates in the short term. The relationship between the epidemic and oil prices reveals a root cause. Moreover, we investigate the interaction between the epidemic and oil prices, with the effective implementation of these solutions with the government's full support.
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having devastating impacts across the globe. Among the implemented policies to reduce the spread of the disease is lockdown. This might have serious impact on farming activities and the livelihoods of millions of people whose daily means of sustenance is tied to agricultural activities. We undertook this study in West Africa, one of the most fragile and vulnerable regions to the epidemic. Our aim was to understand (1) farmers' perception of the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown policies on their farm or business revenue, (2) farmers' preparedness for COVID-19 lockdown on their farm or business revenue, and (3) the impact of effectiveness of COVID-19 lockdown on their farm or business revenue. We combined online questionnaire, physical contact and administration, and social media (Facebook and WhatsApp) to get responses from 303 farmers in Nigeria and Ghana. Our findings show that COVID-19 and lockdown policies negatively affected the farmers. The impact of COVID-19 and lockdown policies on respondents' farm or business revenue was independent of either age or gender of respondents and the effectiveness of lockdown in both the countries. The status of lockdown in respondent places (locked down versus not locked down) and the level of preparedness of farmers to handle the situation with the current COVID-19 crisis in their farms were also independent in both the countries. However, we found that the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown policies on farm or business revenue depends on the level of preparedness of farmers to handle the situation in each country. We further found that the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown policies on farm or business revenue was independent of the status of lockdown but rather depended on the preparedness for the current COVID-19 crisis and differently across countries. Our findings suggest that building capacities of farmers and supporting them in preparedness for such occurrence, as well as establishing and implementing public policies in this direction, can mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their activities.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Hospital Librarianship on 14/10/2021,
available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2021.1982256
