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While a large part of the world’s population had already been placed under lockdown, 2019's novel Coronavirus had a late arrival on the African continent. Since the first confirmed case on the continent in February 2020, South Africa and Egypt have been hotspots for...

Introduction Cause to the expected deepest world recession since World War Two[1], the COVID-19 (the outbreak caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2)) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on global healthcare systems with a ripple...

In recent months, Ecuador has been in the “eye of the storm” due to the dealing of the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences in the social and economic areas in the short and long term. However, to begin with, it is important to...

Beginning with President Trump’s order to limit travel from China on January 31, 2020, and the subsequent orders to restrict travel to the United States from new “hot spots” in Europe and Brazil, government officials across the U.S. have taken unprecedented steps to...

France has been one of the most affected countries in Europe by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 162,936 confirmed cases, including 29,778 deaths, and 75,649 patients cured[1]. Several weeks elapsed between the detection of the first cases at the end of January 2020 and...

Spanish governance model The current political system in Spain is based on the 1978 Spanish Constitution. Below the national level, we have three more tiers of government–regional autonomous communities, local provinces, and municipalities. [i] Spain is made up of 17...

Italian territory and governance of the healthcare system from the central government to the regions The Italian territory is divided in 20 regions. Those public entities are autonomous from the geographical, political, and administrative point of views. Each region...

  Switzerland, confederation of 41 285 km2, with a population of approximately 8.5 million and a slow population growth.  The country is bordered by France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Lichtenstein and is landlocked. It is composed of 26 cantons, and renowned for...

Karsten Zimmermann, Dahae Lee, Paula Quentin, Laura Wächter, Lena Unger, Patricia Feiertag, TU DortmundGermany was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The health sector was under extreme pressure because of shortage of masks and staff and parts of the economy...

Regional Context - South Caucasus Neighboring countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are known as South Caucasus region. Though being ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse, countries still share many thing in common in terms of history, traditions...