Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations]
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged the world’s socioeconomic systems forcing many governments across the globe to implement unprecedented stringent mitigation measures to restrain its rapid spread and adverse effects. A disproportionate number of COVID-19 related morbidities and mortali...
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| author | Edwin N. Wangari Peter Gichuki Angelyne A. Abuor Jacqueline Wambui Stephen O. Okeyo Henry T.N. Oyatsi Shadrack Odikara Benard W. Kulohoma |
| author_facet | Edwin N. Wangari Peter Gichuki Angelyne A. Abuor Jacqueline Wambui Stephen O. Okeyo Henry T.N. Oyatsi Shadrack Odikara Benard W. Kulohoma |
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| description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged the world’s socioeconomic systems forcing many governments across the globe to implement unprecedented stringent mitigation measures to restrain its rapid spread and adverse effects. A disproportionate number of COVID-19 related morbidities and mortalities were predicted to occur in Africa. However, Africa still has a lower than predicted number of cases, 4% of the global pandemic burden. In this open letter, we highlight some of the early stringent countermeasures implemented in Kenya, a sub-Saharan African country, to avert the severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These mitigation measures strike a balance between minimising COVID-19 associated morbidity and fatalities and its adverse economic impact, and taken together have significantly dampened the pandemic’s impact on Kenya’s populace. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-51ed72ebd4d94bcc9a96f7d559f071b12023-09-02T17:20:20ZengF1000 Research LtdAAS Open Research2515-93212021-01-01410.12688/aasopenres.13156.114259Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations]Edwin N. Wangari0Peter Gichuki1Angelyne A. Abuor2Jacqueline Wambui3Stephen O. Okeyo4Henry T.N. Oyatsi5Shadrack Odikara6Benard W. Kulohoma7Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged the world’s socioeconomic systems forcing many governments across the globe to implement unprecedented stringent mitigation measures to restrain its rapid spread and adverse effects. A disproportionate number of COVID-19 related morbidities and mortalities were predicted to occur in Africa. However, Africa still has a lower than predicted number of cases, 4% of the global pandemic burden. In this open letter, we highlight some of the early stringent countermeasures implemented in Kenya, a sub-Saharan African country, to avert the severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These mitigation measures strike a balance between minimising COVID-19 associated morbidity and fatalities and its adverse economic impact, and taken together have significantly dampened the pandemic’s impact on Kenya’s populace.https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/4-3/v1 |
| spellingShingle | Edwin N. Wangari Peter Gichuki Angelyne A. Abuor Jacqueline Wambui Stephen O. Okeyo Henry T.N. Oyatsi Shadrack Odikara Benard W. Kulohoma Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] AAS Open Research |
| title | Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] |
| title_full | Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] |
| title_fullStr | Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] |
| title_short | Kenya’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] |
| title_sort | kenya s response to the covid 19 pandemic a balance between minimising morbidity and adverse economic impact version 1 peer review 1 approved 3 approved with reservations |
| url | https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/4-3/v1 |
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