COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital.

Chaziya, Jessica, Freyne, Bridget, Lissauer, Samantha, Nielsen, Maryke, Langton, Josephine, O'Hare, Bernadette, Molyneux, Liz, Moxon, Christopher, Iroh Tam, Pui-Ying ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-8892, Hoskyns, Lucy, Masanjala, Henderson, Ilepere, Sakina, Ngwira, Memory, Kawaza, Kondwani, Mumba, Daniel, Chimalizeni, Yamikani and Dube, Queen (2021) 'COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital.'. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol 106, Issue 3.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic curve in Africa has lagged behind that of Europe. The first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Malawi was confirmed on 2 April.1 Malawi closed schools and airports, but no ‘lockdown’ was enforced in recognition of the risk to a population vulnerable to economic and health service disruption.2 Although overall ascertainment was low, detection of cases nationwide confirmed community transmission by July. Nonetheless, the number of acute cases presenting to hospital remained less than expected. The current total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide is just over 60001 with Blantyre district contributing one-third of the nationwide total

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WA Public Health > WA 105 Epidemiology WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 320 Child Welfare. Child Health Services. WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > Viral Respiratory Tract Infections. Respirovirus Infections > WC 505 Viral respiratory tract infections
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department Clinical Sciences & International Health > Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme (MLW)
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319980
Depositing User:	Julie Franco
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2021 11:00
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2021 13:15
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/16610

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