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Tanzanian food producers, vendors and traders need direct relief measures in the face of the Covid-19
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
Key messages
• Tanzania’s responses to Covid-19 pandemic have
shifted over time. An initial ambiguous position refrained
from imposing hard lockdown restrictions measures and
focused on local remedies. In the second ...
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 ...
The impact of COVID-19 on the male reproductive tract and fertility: A systematic review
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & FrancisGroup., 2021)
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), remains an ongoing public health challenge. Although males are affected slightly more
than females, the impact of ...
Mental health and physical activity: A COVID-19 viewpoint
(Bentham Open, 2021)
COVID-19, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has become a public health emergency across the globe. It is a
highly contagious disease, which elicits high levels of fear amongst the world ...
Towards a more resilient agri-food system in Ghana post COVID-19
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
This policy brief draws from a study of agri-food system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. We examined how the pre-COVID-19 stresses in the agri-food system have interacted with the fallouts of the pandemic to ...
Building back better after Covid-19: Why South Africa needs an equitable food system for small-scale farmers and fishers, street traders and consumers – and how to build it
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
This policy brief reports headline findings from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 regulations and mitigation measures on actors in South Africa’s food system. The research focuses on fresh produce in Gauteng ...
Sink or swim? How Covid-19 and the responses to it have affected small-scale fishers
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
This policy brief reports findings from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 regulations and mitigation measures on small-scale fishers in the Western Cape, South Africa. The researchers conducted 47 in-depth ...
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 ...
Assessing the capacity of symptom scores to predict COVID-19 positivity in Nigeria: A national derivation and validation cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
s This study aimed to develop and validate a
symptom prediction tool for COVID-19 test positivity in
Nigeria.A cohort of 43 221 individuals within the
national COVID-19 surveillance dataset from 27 February
to 27 August ...
Corrigendum: Synthesis and cytotoxic activity of novel indole derivatives and their in silico screening on spike glycoprotein of sars-cov-2
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
The authors Kaliappillai Vijayakumar, Magda H. Abdellattif, Mohd Shahbaaz were not included in the published article and the authors Daoud Ali, Saud Alarifi, and Amal Alotaibi were mistakenly included in the author list. ...