How does the medicines retail sector ensure continued access to medicines during public health emergencies? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda by Eleanor Hutchinson, Sunday Mundua, Jessica Myers, Sian E. Clarke, Kristian Schultz Hansen, Chrispus Mayora, Freddie Ssengooba, Freddy Eric Kitutu

“…In the community, residents described their reliance on the MRS to provide medicines, especially during lockdowns. Medicine sellers subject to stringent rules on their movement during lockdown, reported some disruptions in tracer medicine stocks and an increase in prices at their suppliers. …”
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Potentially traumatic childbirth experience, childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and the parent-infant relationship in non-birthing parents by Rebecca Hunter, Leonardo De Pascalis, Kieran Anders, Pauline Slade

“…The COVID-19 pandemic context is considered throughout the study, although it must be noted that most data were not collected during UK lockdown restrictions. Methods A cross-sectional design was utilised. …”
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The Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on Local Government Performance in Service Delivery. A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Musinguzi, Joshua

“…The findings to a larger extent showed that the lockdown and other related SOPs affected employee turn-up in local governments. …”
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Modeling the impact of pandemic on the urban thermal environment over megacities in China: Spatiotemporal analysis from the perspective of heat anomaly variations by Jianfeng Gao, Qingyan Meng, Linlin Zhang, Xinli Hu, Die Hu, Jiangkang Qian

“…Influenced by lockdown policies and anomalies in human activities, emergencies such as pandemic significantly altered the urban thermal environment. …”
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First Measurements of Ambient PM2.5 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Using Field-calibrated Low-cost Sensors by Celeste McFarlane, Paulson Kasereka Isevulambire, Raymond Sinsi Lumbuenamo, Arnold Murphy Elouma Ndinga, Ranil Dhammapala, Xiaomeng Jin, V. Faye McNeill, Carl Malings, R. Subramanian, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…Finally, the surface PM2.5 level and the aerosol optical depth were about 40% lower during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 than the corresponding period in 2019, which cannot be attributed solely to changes in meteorology or wildfire emission. …”
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Telerehabilitation: A Practical Remote Alternative for Coaching and Monitoring Physical Kinetic Therapy in Patients with Mild and Moderate Disabling Parkinson’s Disease during the... by Aurelian Anghelescu

“…The COVID-19 pandemic imposed social/physical distancing, lockdown measures, and forced reorientation of the rehabilitation programs for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review by Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares, Elina Apsite-Berina, Judith Borràs, Betül Bulut-Sahin, Martina Chrančoková, Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Anne Marie Devlin, Sybille Heinzmann, Suvi Jokila, Anita Kéri, Ivana Lešević, Annarita Magliacane, Anna Nicolaou, Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir, Adriana Perez-Encinas, Natassa Raikou, Maria Victoria Soule, Deimantas Valančiūnas, Ana Iolanda Voda, Merve Zayim-Kurtay

“…Common to international students’ lived experience was (dis)connectedness, with the following themes emerging as obstacles to their social and cultural integration: distress during lockdown periods, disruption of their social life and support networks, mental health issues, discrimination and racialised prejudice, and language barriers. …”
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Evaluating strategies for global respiratory pandemic control at ports: a modelling study by Gregory Gan, Jue Tao Lim, Tong Guan, Sharon Esi Duoduwa, S Balakumar, Janhavi A, Borame L Dickens

“…Background Heavy reliance on container shipping during the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdown implementation and air travel bans placed substantial pressure on shipping crews and ports. …”
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COVID-19 status and utilisation of essential maternal and child healthcare services during the pandemic in Ahmedabad, India by Sandul Yasobant, K Shruti Lekha, Ravina Tadvi, Bhavin Solanki, Walter Bruchhausen, Deepak Saxena

“…Abstract Background Access to essential healthcare services is pertinent to the achievement of universal health coverage in any nation. The COVID-19 lockdown was used to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. …”
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Contagious viruses’ corollaries and deterioration of quality education in developing countries: an integrated model of artificial intelligence (AI) awareness and remote working by Muhammad Asif Zaheer, Tanveer Muhammad Anwar, Mohamed Albeshr, Maryam Manzoor, Zoia Khan

“…Originality/value – This research provided a quality-based model for HEIs for developing nations to deal with forthcoming calamities of contagious viruses and deliver quality education through remote working during lockdown. Nowadays, off-campus education during calamity situations has been an alternative to on-campus education. …”
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The Impact of Movement Control Order (MCO) during Pandemic COVID-19 on Local Air Quality in an Urban Area of Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir, Maggie Chel Gee Ooi, Kemal Maulana Alhasa, Mohd Aftar Abu Bakar, Anis Asma Ahmad Mohtar, Mohd Fadzil Firdzaus Mohd Nor, Mohd Talib Latif, Haris Hafizal Abd Hamid, Sawal Hamid Md Ali, Noratiqah Mohd Ariff, Johary Anuar, Fatimah Ahamad, Azliyana Azhari, Norfazrin Mohd Hanif, Mohammed Ahmed Subhi, Murnira Othman, Mohd Zaim Mohd Nor

“…Considering the need for lockdown measures, most countries, including Malaysia, have implemented ‘Movement Control Orders’ (MCOs) as a prevention step to reduce the deadly spread of this disease. …”
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Variations in vitamin D status among Chinese children aged 1–6 years during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yongfeng Qiao, Xiaoqin Wang, Yanfen Ma, Jian Hu

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate 25(OH)D concentrations in children before and during the COVID-19 lockdown and to analyze the factors influencing their vitamin D status.MethodsA cross-sectional survey included children aged 1–6 years from Han Zhong Central Hospital in the southern Shanxi Province of China. …”
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Cohort profile: the potentially preventable burden of community-acquired pneumonia in South African adults in the era of widespread PCV13 immunisation and antiretroviral therapy ro... by Jo Southern, Kennedy Otwombe, Eileen Dunne, Khuthadzo Hlongwane, Bradford D Gessner, Michelle Wong, Cheryl Cohen, Anne von Gottberg, Elizabeth Begier, Sharon Gray, Ebrahim Variava, Tumelo Moloantoa, Neil Martinson, Firdaus Nabeemeeah, Nadia Sabet, Lebohang M Mlambo, Phetho Mangena, Pattamukkil Abraham, Floris Swanepoel, Fahima Moosa, Mark Fletcher, Bha Ndungane-Tlakula, Jerusha Naidoo, Minja Milovanovic

“…We aimed to investigate CAP incidence, recurrence, mortality, risk factors and microbiology before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Participants Adults aged ≥18 years were enrolled in three South African provinces from March 2019 to October 2021, with a brief halt during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. The first group, PdCAP, a surveillance cohort, had their data abstracted to estimate the population incidence of physician-diagnosed CAP by counting incident CAP patients presenting to emergency rooms (ER) and mapping them to catchment areas linked to census data. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“… While the unprecedented lockdown measures were at the heart of the debate in the first year of the pandemic, the focus since then has shifted to vaccination issues. …”
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A Framework for a European Economic Recovery After COVID-19 by Julia Anderson, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff

“…Abstract The success of support measures as COVID-19 lockdowns are relaxed depends on the type of recovery the EU wants to achieve.…”
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Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe by M. Mujinga

“…Covid-19 lockdowns diluted the traditional meaning of sacramental theology for mainline churches. …”
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Town Councils as Policy Instruments for Community Engagement: Local Diversity Within a Centralized Response to the COVID Pandemic in England by Susan Ball

“…During the time of successive lockdowns due to the COVID pandemic, local organisations faced increased demand for ensuring that residents and businesses were kept informed and supported while simultaneously waiting for guidance to be passed down from central government to local authorities and on to communities. …”
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International Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Michael Dauderstädt

“…Abstract The lockdowns and stimulus programmes that governments have adopted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis have affected the distribution of income and production within and between countries. …”
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Blurred boundaries: exploring the influence of work-life and life-work conflicts on university teachers’ health, work results, and willingness to teleworking by Filipa Sobral, Eva Dias-Oliveira, Catarina Morais, Julia Hodgson

“…COVID-19 lockdowns forced organizations to rapidly shift from face-to-face interactions to online platforms, leading to unforeseen challenges. …”
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Effectiveness of the Strategies Implemented in Sri Lanka for Controlling the COVID-19 Outbreak by K. K. W. H. Erandi, A. C. Mahasinghe, S. S. N. Perera, S. Jayasinghe

“…In order to bring the new coronavirus pandemic in the country under control, the government of Sri Lanka implemented a set of control strategies including social distancing, quarantine, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and isolation of villages. …”
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