Health Care Waste Management and COVID-19 Pandemic This article aims to provide an overview of healthcare waste generation rate and management in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze the country’s existing waste management policies and regulations. Journal Article
Read MoreGulf Digital News This article reflects on a Bahraini study that found that wind speed and temperature may be connected to the spread of COVID-19. The research entitled ‘The relation between SARS-CoV-2 cases in Bahrain and Meteorological Parameters’ analyzed 27 months of data between 2020 and 2022. Article
Read MoreEnergy Strategy Reviews This article investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on electricity consumption in Qatar by utilizing three machine-learning models in the analysis. Journal Article
Read MoreEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research This article studies the experience of the Kuwait public transport company KPTC and Kuwait Airways during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the major losses they incurred due to the decline of their users. Journal Article
Read MoreJournal 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
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