![]() Citation14 Knowledge, attitude, perception, and practice for COVID-19 prevention strategies vary from the country. Citation13Ĭommunity readiness is crucial to decrease the burden of COVID-19 on socio-economic activities and the healthcare system. Citation4, Citation10, Citation12 Continuous increment of the infection, morbidity, lack of therapeutic measures, increased costs of the PPE, and medications are also major constraints in less developed nations. Citation11Įven though many countries in Africa scale-up their preparation and readiness to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, shortage of testing kits, poor tracing system, poor health care system, shortage of PPE, shortage of laboratories, and negligence of the public to the preventive measures are the big challenge for the continent. ![]() Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is the most challenging event for the whole world’s features such as the socio-economic, healthcare system, and psychological wellbeing of humanity. Even if most COVID-19 cases are mild, ~25% of COVID-19 patients require intensive care and ~10% need mechanical ventilation. Citation10 The case-fatality rate (CFR) of the diseases depends on patients’ age, substance abuse, and any comorbidity. In Africa, because of low testing capacity, week contact tracing, and poor reporting system, the number of cases and deaths are low as compared to developed nations. Citation8, Citation9ĬOVID-19 pandemic affects almost all continents of the world America and Asian countries were highly affected. Citation6, Citation7 In the context of developing countries unless the concerned bodies like governments, institutions, or wealthy individuals address the impacts of strict lockdown and travel ban for the most vulnerable communities, household food insecurity and related morbidity and mortality might be much higher than COVID-19. Citation4, Citation5 However, strict mass social distancing and lockdown may be difficult in countries of low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) with foregoing unstable economic ground level, where most of the population leads their life from daily based income. The virus has no proven therapeutic drugs and or vaccines, but the only key transmission preventing strategies depends on educating the public about the nature of the disease and the transmission route, restricting mobility within and across borders, physical distancing, hand washing, environmental cleaning, and the rational use of personnel protective equipment (PPE) like masks. Citation2 World health organization (WHO) also declared COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 31st of January 2020 and declared as a pandemic on 11th March 2020. ![]() Citation1 In Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology was reported in December 2019, and China’s center of disease control (CDC) reported a novel coronavirus as the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on January 2020. Note: You do not have to register with Epi Info to use Epi Info, but registration allows the developer to contact you with training opportunities, new versions, etc.Mankind has observed and fighting an invisible enemy of several pandemics through history where some of which were more disastrous to humans. With Epi Info and a personal computer, physicians, epidemiologists, and other public health and medical workers can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.Įpi Info contains a set of tools and utilities which can be installed individually or collectively. Epi Info is a series of freely distributable programs for use by public health professionals in conducting outbreak investigations, managing databases for public health surveillance and other tasks, and general database and statistics applications.
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