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Copy URL ON March 15 and 16, 2020 Malaysia had recorded 190 and 125 Covid 19 cases respectively, after which the government announced a nation wide lockdown for a duration of two weeks from March 18 to 31, advising citizens to stay home, wear masks, practise social distancing of 1m, prohibition of mass movements and gatherings and allowing only essential businesses to be opened, and a sanction on Malaysians travelling abroad. Within months Malaysia nearly won the war recording only double-digit cases and low number of deaths. Malaysia’s prescription for success received accolades from its ...
By Chioma Obinna LAST weekend, the World Health Organisation, WHO denied the purported media report of the disqualification of Nigeria from the vaccine through the Pfizer-BioNTech COVAX facility. Nigeria will now benefit from the 16 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine allocation. However, criticism trails Nigeria’s exclusion as the 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines expected to arrive in Nigeria this month was no longer feasible. Good Health Weekly spoke to a renowned Medical Laboratory Scientist and a Public Health Analyst, Dr Casmier Ifeanyi. Ifeanyi said Nigeria is yet to get ...
Luca Di Gialleonardo, Mauro Marè, Antonello Motroni, Francesco Porcelli 04 February 2021 It was clear from early on in the Covid-19 pandemic that combatting it would require governments to monitor mass transit, schools, workplaces, and large public events. Less appreciated was the role played by social capital and family ties in the spread of the virus. This column provides an empirical analysis demonstrating a robust positive relationship between family ties and the contagion rate across the world. Death rates, by contrast, are not affected by family ties or other social factors, but...