UNICEF This UNICEF article provides a holistic overview of vaccination status in Egypt against the COVID-19 and pays close attention to the situation in remote and rural areas there. It reports a fund of 100,000 USD from the Binance Charity to fund mobile teams in areas like Menoufia. Article
Read MoreCureus This article assesses the occurrence of sleep disturbance associated with the spread of COVID-19 among residents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It also discusses the psychological effects of the outbreak. Journal Article
Read MorePLOS Global Public Health This article reports on a study of the relation between non- Pharmaceutical interventions (such as masking and lockdowns etc…) and SARS-COV-2 transmission in Saudi Arabia during its first pandemic wave. Journal Article
Read MoreThe Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery This article investigates the extent to which COVID-19 patients complied with self-isolation policies. It also examines the psychological effects of self-isolation on patients in Oman. Journal Article
Read MoreThe RAND Blog This blog-post from The Rand Blog identifies challenges in COVID-19 responses faced by Lebanon amid the current political and economic crises. The authors also highlights the country’s successes and innovations in combating those challenges. Article
Read MoreFrontiers in Public Health This article aims to investigate the nature, difference, and severity of COVID-19 vaccines’ side effects. Journal Article
Read MorePeerJ This article studies the level of stress of nurses working in critical care units fighting directly against COVID-19. Although COVID-19 cases had declined significantly during the study period in Saudi Arabia, the majority of nurses were still experiencing moderate to high levels of stress about the epidemic, but were, at the same time, moderately…
Read MoreAIMS Mathematics This article highlights the role of fractional calculus models in describing the growth of COVID-19 dynamics in Saudi Arabia over the span of 107 days. Journal Article
Read MoreWorld Bank This article assesses the fragility of Arab government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and provides policy recommendations. It discusses how government trust and the perception of the social contract will change due to the citizen-government interaction during the pandemic. Working Paper
Read MoreBMC Public Health This article evaluates and compares public opinion on the governmental measures to control the spread of COVID-19 of high, low and middle-income countries in the Middle East. When benchmarked with international levels of satisfaction, GCC countries scored highly whereas Lebanon scored poorly. Journal Article
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