scholarly journals Second wave of COVID-19 and hesitation of vaccination in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1853
Author(s):  
Amandeep Singh ◽  
Harleen Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

Amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in India have already risked its "window of opportunity" period to have ramped up its progressive and determined vaccination program. Today, as the government has the escalating threat of coronavirus variants, it has entered into the second wave, facing an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The vaccination drive-through vital is again running at a slow pace.

scholarly journals Accelerating Indonesian COVID-19 vaccination rollout: a critical task amid the second wave

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Rachmad Nugraha ◽  
Adriana Viola Miranda ◽  
Attaullah Ahmadi ◽  
Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Income Country ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Unique Context

AbstractCoronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has been spreading in every part of the world, putting nations at risk with its pandemic status, including Indonesia. COVID-19 vaccine has been deemed as one of the most effective interventions to date for mitigating the spread and mortality from COVID-19. Responding to the situation, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) has allocated the means necessary to procure and distribute COVID-19 vaccines; placing into consideration the unique context of the country, recently categorized as a middle-income country and archipelagic with a population over 270 million. This article aims to present the challenges associated with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccination as well as recommendations to mitigate them, to ensure a timely and effective COVID-19 vaccination program in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Respecting freedom in the absence of compassion: realistic behavior by public officials for the COVID-19 vaccination program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalmacito A Cordero
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Government ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

Abstract The virtue of compassion is a valid antidote to lighten the burden of negative effects brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, real-life situations can attest that this is not always the kind of behavior for some people since the current situation is considered as ‘survival of the fittest.’ In its absence, the respect of freedom by public officials to every citizen is a great substitute most especially in the implementation of the government’s vaccination program. This behavior actualizes every person’s plan of protection without being pressured. This right needs to be provided and not taken away by the government.

Medical Waste Management during COVID-19 Situation: Perspective Towards Safe Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANOJ KUMAR JINDAL ◽  
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sar
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Open Dumping ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

The situation in the world of pandemics is rapidly changing, and the second wave of COVID-19 has put a lot of pressure on the government and private sector, which are primarily responsible for controlling the situation. COVID-19 positive cases have increased in recent months relative to last year, and the number of patients admitted to hospitals has also increased, despite the fact that few of them were denied admission due to shortage of beds. Normal people who experience any symptoms immediately isolate themselves and begin taking the COVID medications prescribed by medical personnel and their team. During these times, all domestic people tossed the wrappers and boxes of medicines into the regular trash can, and the waste was handed over to the waste collector, who treated it like any other domestic waste and disposed of it using open dumping or other methods. The goal of this perspective is to suggest the collections of these types of waste from domestics, and protect the natural resources like water, soil, and even living beings like animals from pollution (from the effect of SARS-CoV-2). The main challenge for environmental waste management agencies is determining who has COVID positive and which houses generate these types of waste; thus, proposed strategy may be beneficial to the long-term sustainability of natural resources and animals.

scholarly journals Lockdown to contain COVID-19 is a window of opportunity to prevent the second wave

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies Wilder-Smith ◽  
Yaneer Bar-Yam ◽  
Dale Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Second Wave

scholarly journals Analysis of second wave of COVID-19 cases in Nepal with a logistic model

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Radha Krishna Joshi ◽  
Sarita Bhatt ◽  
Tika Ram Lamichhane ◽  
Madhav Prasad Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Data Modelling ◽  
Wave Impact ◽  
New Variant ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

Background: COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a newly identified highly infectious disease. It has affected almost every country including Nepal causing a pandemic situation. Most of the properties of SARS-CoV-2 are not known and still under intense investigation. Due to high mutation rate, it reappears in many countries in the form of new variant. In Nepal, second wave impact of COVID-19 is mainly caused by newly found delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. In this case, the mathematical modelling is noted to play important role to understand control strategies for the spread of coronavirus. Aims and Objective: To analyze the second wave impact by modelling the data of COVID-19 cases in Nepal. Materials and Methods: We have analyzed COVID-19 daily cases and deaths reported by Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal from April 1 to May 31, 2021. A logistic model has been used to present the trend line of COVID-19 infection in Nepal, based on the law of population growth developed by Verhulst. Results: The results show a good fit between observed and predicted data by logistic model as indicated by coefficient of determination having value near to unity. The point of inflection from the logistic model predicted a maximum of 9951 daily new cases. The maximum number of cumulative cases estimated at the end of second wave was found to be 307293 with 95% confidence interval. Conclusion: Logistic model properly describes the growth of COVID-19 cases with time. This type of data modelling and analysis will be very useful in predicting the upcoming trend of COVID-19 in Nepal as a basis for making health policy management by the government.

scholarly journals Effect of the protection measures established by the peruvian government to prevent the Coronavirus in the Barranca district during the second wave of infections [Efecto de las medidas de protección establecidas por el gobierno peruano para prevenir el Coronavirus en el distrito de Barranca durante la segunda ola de contagios]

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dante Cruz Nieto ◽  
Ronald Rodriguez Espinoza ◽  
Olga Valderrama Rios ◽  
Jorge López Balarezo ◽  
Ronald Ramos Pacheco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Visual Inspection ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

The objective of the investigation is to establish the effect of the protection measures established by the government to reduce the contagion by Covid -19 in the district of Barranca during the second wave of infections. Data were collected on compliance with protection measures such as distancing, use of masks, visors and disinfection with alcohol in public places such as streets, markets, banks and parks. For this, data collection instruments based on visual inspection were used to verify the appropriate use of protection measures, as well as a survey regarding the use of alcohol as a disinfectant; and the data obtained was processed through basic statistics and correlation with the data reported by the Ministry of Health of positive infections by Covid-19. It was determined that there is a growth relationship between compliance with protection measures and the number of positive infections, with correlation coefficients for distance of 0.7458, use of 0.6710 masks, 0.8784 visors and use of alcohol as a disinfectant of 0.7310. Regarding the analysis of variance, it is obtained that the use of visors influences the number of positive infections, which is why it is concluded that maintaining distance, in addition to the use of masks and disinfectant alcohol are effective measures to control the number of infections per coronavirus.

scholarly journals Digital Transformation vs COVID-19: the Case of Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junzo Iida
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Electronic Contracts ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Business Sectors

Whilst the DX policy of the Japanese government started in 2001, then called the E-Japan Strategy and being replaced a few years later by the i-Japan Strategy, in the 20 years since then IT has not been a success in Japan’s administrative system. On the other hand, the private sector, concerned about Japan’s lagging in its adoption of information technology, has been gradually moving forward to DX measures, such as electronic contracts. Then, this year, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Japan is (as of July 2020) about to experience a second wave of this disease. The need for DX has become imperative in all aspects of Japanese society, especially the government and business sectors. In the first half of 2020, the government set up DX policy rapidly; for example, civil court proceedings, the traditional carve seals custom, and the submission of administrative documents to government agencies have also been forced to move forward to DX due to COVID-19. It might be said that the crisis has been the catalyst for Japan’s shift to DX. However, it will be at least a few years before it can be known whether Japan’s DX will succeed, looking at the past examples within the Japanese bureaucratic system and politicians’ attitudes towards DX.

Wars within Wars: Why Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability Cause Inter-rebel Fighting in Internal Conflicts

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costantino Pischedda
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Vulnerability Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Window Of Vulnerability ◽  
And Control

Why do rebel groups often fight each other when confronting a common, and typically stronger, enemy—namely, the government? Inter-rebel aggression is a calculated response by rebel groups to opportunities for expansion and to the threats confronting such groups. In particular, inter-rebel wars occur under the following conditions: (1) when a window of opportunity emerges allowing rebel groups to defeat coethnic rivals at low costs and thus achieve rebel hegemony, or (2) when rebel groups are confronted with a window of vulnerability, in which they experience a radical deterioration of power relative to that of coethnic rivals and then attempt to escape in a desperate military gamble. Both strict military considerations and ethnic identities shape the rebel groups' calculus. Coethnicity influences the threat perception of rebel groups and their ability to grow at the expense of rivals, thus providing both defensive and offensive motives for inter-rebel aggression. Because coethnic rebel groups want to mobilize and control the same ethnic communities, they are highly sensitive to immediate, intense conflicts of interest and see other coethnic rebel groups as serious threats. Moreover, coethnic rebel groups can generally expect to absorb the resources of defeated rivals, which in turn may improve their chances in the fight against the government. In-depth case studies of multiparty insurgencies in Ethiopia's Eritrea and Tigray provinces, based on interviews with former rebel leaders, strongly support the window of opportunity and vulnerability theory of inter-rebel war.

COVID-19 complications and entrepreneurial intention among the entrepreneurs of Pakistan: evidence from the second wave of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahadur Ali Soomro
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

Purpose At present, nearly the whole globe is facing a severe threat of COVID-19. This study aims to examine the COVID-19 complications and entrepreneurial intention among the entrepreneurs of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The study used a deductive approach. An online survey is conducted to collect cross-sectional data from entrepreneurs of Pakistan. Convenience sampling is applied to target the respondents. In total, 278 usable answers proceed for final analysis. The structural equation model (SEM) is used to infer the results. Findings The findings of the study highlight a significant negative effect of fear of COVID-19 (FO19), perceived susceptibility (PSU) and perceived severity (PSE) on entrepreneurial intention (EI) among the entrepreneurs. Practical implications The study would provide the guidelines for policymakers and planners to combat the barriers of fear, PSU and PSE during a pandemic. The findings of the second wave of COVID-19 may provide a warning to the government to take preventive measures to face the severe effect of the pandemic. Finally, the outcomes of the study may enrich the depth of COVID-19 literature globally. Originality/value This study is the first study highlighting factors such as fear, PSU and PSE toward EI in COVID-19 second wave.

Policies to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 (S2) ◽  
pp. S218-S226
Author(s):  
Ronald Evans ◽  
Roger Bonilla ◽  
Roberto Salvatierra
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Social Security Fund ◽  
Effective Suppression ◽  
Security Fund ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Made In

The objective of this paper is to present a series of policies for the control of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Costa Rican authorities. An exhaustive review of the pandemic control policies was made in the official government media, mainly the Ministry of Health and the Costa Rican Social Security Fund and some collective media. The first wave of the pandemic in Costa Rica was quite mild, allowing the government to address it with a series of quite effective suppression and mitigation measures, which had the unrestricted support of the population. The second wave grew aggressively, causing social discontent due to the economic impact. Due to the ineffectiveness of the “hammer and dance” strategy, the Costa Rican government has rethought that strategy, lifting certain restrictions while recognizing the risk involved in terms of the increase in cases of COVID-19 in cases and deaths.

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