Category: Stop the Spread

New Zealand’s successful management of the pandemic despite an under-resourced healthcare system confers valuable policy lessons for other countries too. Foremost among these is evidence that, particularly for small island countries with limited healthcare capacity, rapid and extensive border closures can be highly efficacious in stemming imported cases of COVID-19 and reducing overall caseload. Island …

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Covid-19, initially a health crisis has easily and increasingly become a looming socio-economic crisis across the globe. In such context, Sri Lanka too has been facing immense difficulties, especially in today’s unprecedented circumstances where the public has been forced to step out in the streets demanding basic needs.  The Sri Lankan government, under the Quarantine …

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The Brazilians, the largest nation in Latin America have been greatly affected by the corona virus. Although Brazil has taken various measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus, the government intervention has been rather week. Neither one of the four ministers holding power in the Brazilian Ministry of Health since the Covid-19 outbreak …

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With the first case reported from the Wuhan area of China in December 2019, the world was gripped by the fears of a virus known Covid-19 or corona. New Zealand is currently one of the first countries in the world to have successfully controlled the corona virus. The first Covid infection case was reported in …

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most compelling and challenging wicked problems which pushed all the governments nearly equally to the verge of a cliff. It has presented an almost unprecedented challenge to public healthcare system around the world.After the first confirmed patient reported in Wuhan, China in the end of 2019, the …

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