Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against importations of COVID-19: a modelling study

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10227, 2020, Pages 871-877

  Gilbert, Marius ^a,b   Pullano, Giulia ^c,d   Pinotti, Francesco ^c   Valdano, Eugenio ^e   Poletto, Chiara ^c   Boëlle, Pierre Yves ^c   D'Ortenzio, Eric ^f,g   Yazdanpanah, Yazdan ^f,g   Eholie, Serge Paul ^h,i   Altmann, Mathias ^j,k   Gutierrez, Bernardo ^l   Kraemer, Moritz U G ^l,m,n   Colizza, Vittoria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services Laboratory at Orange Experience Design Laboratory Chatillion   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TREICHVILLE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^j INSERM U657   (France)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁿ BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS; AFRICA; AIRPORT; ALERTNESS; ALGERIA; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EGYPT; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; GHANA; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE VULNERABILITY INDEX; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATION; KENYA; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MONITORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOUTH AFRICA; SUDAN; TANZANIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CIVIL DEFENSE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFRICA; CHINA; CIVIL DEFENSE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 85079867190     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30411-6     Document Type: Article

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