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Displaying 135 of about 234 resultsThe issue of this fifth journal is dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the challenges, their implications, and possible solutions to address the economic vulnerability during the health emergency.
The most relevant articles in this issue, are:
Containment of spread of COVID-19 while keeping pace of socio-economic activities: a difficul…
The collection of case studies highlights how behavior campaigns are geared towards engaging the local population in safety practices to prevent COVID-19 (English).
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Perspectives on the Pandemic: COVID-19 in South Asia’ and brings forth different perspectives on managing the COVID-19 outbreak in South Asia. South Asia is unlike other regions in the world, it is culturally diverse, economically dynamic and demographically young. Moreover, South Asia is also the world’s…
The guidelines provide instructions for reopening education institutions during COVID 19 Pandemic. It covers essential aspects for the safe re-opening of all institutions (English).
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) wil…
The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic undoubtedly presents an imminent danger to all countries around the world. Disaster-prone countries tend to suffer greater damage from this pandemic taking into account that it is almost impossible to halt the probability of disaster occurrence, even when the pandemic starts to reach its epidemiological pea…
In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the relatively limited data available, the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, through the Making Every Woman and Girl Count global programme, developed a rapid survey assessment tool to assess the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the main challenges faced by on women and men…
The government of Indonesia has developed a guide for school reopening in the academic year in a time of pandemic to promote community safety in view of face-to-face learning. This guide will serve as a reference for the local authorities which decide to reopen schools, based on existing regulations with principles for the health and safety of all stude…
The recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in mainland China was characterized by a distinctive subexponential increase of confirmed cases during the early phase of the epidemic, contrasting with an initial exponential growth expected for an unconstrained outbreak. This study shows that this effect can be explained as a direct consequenc…
COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments, and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) will be releasing a series of art…
COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) will be releasing a series of arti…
Physical and social distancing measures are associated with limiting contact between people during disease outbreaks. These measures when applied are often enhanced by lockdowns or shutdowns as part of broader risk communication and community engagement strategies to halt the transmission of disease outbreaks. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…
This article highlights the need for enacting COVID-19 countermeasures in advance of seasonal increases in natural hazards. The authors argue that the inclusion of natural hazard inputs into COVID-19 epidemiological models could enhance the evidence base for:
informing contemporary policy across diverse multi-hazard scenarios, defining and addre…
This is a lessons-learned guide prepared by the Government of Korea on handling the challenges linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The guides analyses the below main points:
In response to economic challenges, the Korean government focus on three areas in terms of international economic cooperation amid the pandemic.
In response to ed…
This paper deals with an in‐depth analysis of riskness associated with COVID‐19 infections in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) at the sub‐city (ward) level. The authors examined the degree of risk associated with COVID‐19 infections in Kolkata Municipal Corporation at the sub‐city (ward) level based on socio‐economic and health indicators. They ident…