Journal of Community Medicine and Health Solutions This article shows that the gradual limitation of industrial activity and automobile traffic in Tunisia caused by COVID-19 pandemic protective measures have been accompanied by an apparent decrease in air pollution and air quality index in Tunisian regions, especially in the north and the center. Journal Article
Read MoreInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction This article assesses indicators of specific Sustainable Development Goals in reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 by conducting several questionnaire surveys among experts in Egypt. The scope of this research is limited to addressing poverty alleviation, hunger abatement, healthcare promotion, sustainable economic growth, and climate change mitigation. Journal Article
Read MoreNature Communications This article investigates the relative contributions of regional and intercontinental connectivity to the source-sink dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 for Jordan and the Middle East. By integrating genomic, epidemiological and travel data, the authors show that the source of introductions into Jordan was dynamic across 2020, shifting from intercontinental seeding in the early pandemic to…
Read MoreEnvironmental Challenges This article reviews the environmental implications associated with the COVID-19 pandemic at the individual and community levels in the UAE. It found that the positive effects include improved air quality and reduced contamination of public spaces with pollutants, while negative effects include poor disposal of medical plastic waste and facemasks and the rise…
Read MoreJournal of Hazardouz Materials Advances This article reports on a long-term quantification study in Bahrain to investigate the incidence of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreOECD This report reflects on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on MENA countries and the potential changes it may bring to their reform agendas. It addresses the ongoing effects of the crisis and the long-term consequences and identifies emerging new trends. Report
Read MoreTECHNIUM This article examines the immediate and long-term impact of COVID-19 on various forms of energy consumption during confinement in Algeria. The author focus on the impact of COVID 19 on the energy consumption of electricity, gas, and water in the residential sector. Journal Article
Read MoreNature Scientific Reports This article utilizes nighttime lights data from NASA from 584 urban areas to track the implementation and adherence to curfew and lockdown measures in 17 MENA countries during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreEnvironmental Sciences and Pollution Research To address the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a thorough examination of the pandemic’s influence on four SDGs in Egypt is presented in a system dynamic model. The model predicts declining poverty, decreasing percentage of food insecurity, rising growth rates, and declining GHG emissions….
Read MoreEnvironmental Earth Sciences This research examines the association between the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in three major cities of Jordan, and between climate indicators to include the average daily temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, pressure, and the concentration of four pollutants (CO, NO2, PM10, and SO2). It was concluded that the multiple linear regression and…
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