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It’s been over 20 months since the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 as a global health emergency and pandemic. It’s estimated that the resulting reductions in travel in 2020 alone wiped US$4.5 trillion from the global tourism economy and cost …
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The toll of the coronavirus pandemic on physical health and lives worldwide is enormous. But the disease and the lockdown measures have had an impact on mental health too.
Some of the mental health issues that have been reported due …
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Kenya is to impose restrictions on access to public spaces for those who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 from December 21. This, along with the opening up of COVID-19 vaccination to young people over 15, is an attempt by …
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When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency in March 2020, it became apparent that the news media’s role in communicating health information was going to be pivotal to help control the spread of …
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Tax revenue generation remains one of the most central activities of any nation-state. The state collects taxes and efficiently redistributes the resources as part of its allocation function. However, since independence, Ghana has struggled to collect enough taxes relative to …
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Many Nigerians were in total denial of the COVID-19 pandemic until we recorded the first case in late February 2020. The outbreak led to a massive restructuring of work and service policies in all industries, primarily when the government issued
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The emergence of COVID-19 in the world has no doubt disrupted the economy of most countries. The factor credited for this disruption is none other than the brutal approach the governments adopted when they thought of combating the pandemic. Lockdowns …
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South Africa’s government-imposed COVID-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in COVID-19 cases. But …
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Since the lockdown began in South Africa on 27 March 2020, only 207 additional critical care beds and 350 ventilators have been added in the public health sector. According to a recent article on News24, there were 2,512 critical care …
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The devastating effects of South Africa’s draconian lockdown are playing out in front of our eyes. Implemented on 27 March 2020, the lockdown has piled on the misery for an economy that was already taking its last breaths. The myriad …
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