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Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
(Springer, 2020)
COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns
on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) response in Zimbabwe: A call for urgent scale-up of testing to meet national capacity
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) heavily relies on universal access to testing in order to identify who is infected; track
them to make sure they do not spread the disease further; and trace those with whom ...
COVID-19: Focus on masks and respirators – Implications for oral health-care workers
(2020)
The emergence of the novel human coronavirus (Severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; abbreviated as:
SARS-CoV-2) generally known as COVID-19 is a global
health concern.1
On 11 February 2020, the World ...
The Negative Impacts of COVID-19 Containment Measures on South African Families - Overview and Recommendations
(2021-03)
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported various pneumonia cases (‘Coronavirus Disease 2019’ [COVID-19]) on 31 December 2019 in
Wuhan City, China, which has spread to many countries, including South Africa. In response ...
Understanding varying COVID-19 mortality rates reported in Africa compared to Europe, Americas and Asia
(Pub med, 2021-07)
The SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes the COVID-19 disease, has impacted every nation on the globe, albeit disproportionately. African countries have seen lower infection and mortality rates than most countries in the ...
A new logistic growth model applied to COVID-19 fatality data
(Elsevier, 2021)
follows a sub-exponential power-law scaling whenever effective control interventions are in place. Taking this
into consideration, we present a new phenomenological logistic model that is well-suited for such power-law
epidemic ...
Predictors of mask-wearing during the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2022)
Background: In the absence of a vaccine, the global spread of
COVID-19 during 2020 has necessitated non-pharmaceutical
interventions to curb the rise of cases. Purpose: The article
uses the health belief model and a ...
COVID-19: An alternative approach to postgraduate supervision in the digital age
(2022)
Universities globally are facing enormous governmental pressure to increase postgraduate output, and in turn, contribute to the knowledge economy. This pressure is transferred to research supervisors, who have to navigate ...