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Lockdown as a Strategy to Control COVID-19
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Naheed Bano, Rizwan Ahmad, Zahid Khan, Majid Khan
The most effective strategy considered controlling the pandemic remains lockdown, but it is also suggested as neither good nor bad. As now world is coming out of lockdown as ad hoc or illogical exit strategies, the number of infected confirmed cases still flooding, and we feel a lack of planning in some countries of the world and smells bad [22, 23]. The main reason behind the lockdown was that the health crisis was turning into an economic crisis. So many developing countries decided to open the lock with necessary precautionary measures and SOPs. The lack of aggressive testing, quarantining, and treating asymptotic and sympatric testing during lockdown is also associated with incomplete data of infected people [24, 25].
Encounters of Nothingness
Published in Usva Seregina, Astrid Van den Bossche, Art-Based Research in the Context of a Global Pandemic, 2023
I was in Amsterdam on a short holiday with friends as Covid-19 began to spread beyond northern Italy throughout the rest of Europe. During the trip Netherlands began introducing lockdown measures similar to most European countries. The restriction measures and conditions of lockdown increased in severity daily. Events planned for the trip were cancelled one by one. Covid-19 origin theories, metaphors, and associations dominated the uneasy mood which contrasted typical holiday mode. Covid-19 became all-consuming. Airlines even began waving fees for rearranging flights. The rest of the group left earlier than planned. I was isolating on arrival home regardless, so what was one more day away? On reflection, I simply wasn’t prepared to face the escalating situation in Ireland as much as I wanted to explore the dissipative atmosphere in Amsterdam. Travelling during the early days of lockdown afforded access to many novel experiences, and feelings, that I may not have necessarily experienced or felt otherwise.
Impact of Lockdown on Social and Mobile Networks During the COVID-19 Epidemic: A Case Study of Uttarakhand
Published in Ram Shringar Raw, Vishal Jain, Sanjoy Das, Meenakshi Sharma, Pandemic Detection and Analysis Through Smart Computing Technologies, 2022
Prachi Joshi, Bhagwati Prasad Pande
The term lockdown can be defined as a set of constraints for humans limiting their physical movements and forcing them to remain at the place they are. Such restrictions are generally imposed because of some specific risks to others or themselves had they allowed to move freely. The term lockdown is generally governed by a prison protocol that can only be triggered by top-level authorities and lockdown measures are initiated as preventive measures at the time of emergencies and pandemics [4]. The existence of lockdowns have been reported in the history of mankind in various forms and flavors, like fighting against pandemics; terrorism; physical, political, and technological threats; and emergencies, etc. Tools like confinement, isolation, quarantine, and social distancing practices and total lockdown have been helping to save lives and mitigating potential risks. Jahanbegloo [5] reported that the practices of isolation, confinement, and quarantine are very old and proved very helpful at the time of outbreaks of serious influenza, plague, and epidemics. Jahanbegloo [5] also shed light on lockdowns that existed in history due to nuclear accidents and terrorist attacks. Hendry [6] reported that the lockdown techniques came into existence in the late 1970s in Southern California. Williams [7] mentioned that the practice of quarantine and isolation has long been used to prevent the spread of diseases like plague, black death, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) during World War One and the SARS epidemic.
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on soccer positional and physical demands in the Spanish La Liga
Published in Science and Medicine in Football, 2023
Tomás García-Calvo, Javier Fernandez-Navarro, Jesús Díaz-García, Roberto López-Del Campo, Fermín Martínez Fernández, Daniel Memmert
The sample included the match observations of all matches played in two phases or periods of the top Spanish soccer league (i.e., La Liga Santander) during season 19/20: pre-lockdown period, from the 1st (16–18th August) to the 27th matchday (6–8th March) and post-lockdown period, from the 28th (11–14th June) to the 38th matchday (19th July). The lockdown period duration was between 60 and 65 days. Therefore, to analyse collective positional data, a total of 760 records belonging to all matches played over the season by all teams of LaLiga Santander were included. On the other hand, to analyse the distances covered by soccer players, a total of 8,347 individual match observations of all players who participated in matches (starters and non-starters) were included (n = 457). Only goalkeepers and players (starters or non-starters) that played less than 10 minutes were excluded because it was observed in the present study that average values obtained from these players were higher than the team average. We would like to remark that La Liga changed for the 5-substitute rule.
Can School Lockdowns Save Lives? An Assessment of Drills and Use in Real-World Events
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2023
Jaclyn Schildkraut, Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amanda B. Nickerson, Allyson Florczykowski
Third, lockdown drills are an important part of comprehensive school safety preparedness. In order to be most effective, they must be employed by a collaborative, multidisciplinary safety team that operates according to the National Incident Management System’s ICS (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008), that has planned for multiple threats and hazards across settings and times (e.g., events on and off campus, such as sporting events; before, during, and after school), and that provides for access and functional needs of the entire school community (Brock et al., 2016). An essential part of the ICS and comprehensive school safety is collaboration with first responders and other agencies (U.S. Department of Education, 2013). Indeed, the results of Study 2 underscore how the protective effects of lockdowns also can be dependent on the actions of first responders. This relates to the purpose of lockdowns – to mitigate harm in the event of a danger – as opposed to replacing prevention or policy that protects people from mass violence.
Determinants of psychological well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic among “people living with HIV/AIDS” in India
Published in AIDS Care, 2022
Namrata Chindarkar, Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Rajesh Chandwani
The past year has seen rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe, with countries implementing various precautionary measures to contain the pandemic. In India, these measures included a nationwide lockdown, with residents permitted to step out only for essential supplies. Health and social work professionals have been concerned that marginalized populations, such as “people living with HIV/AIDS” (PLHIV), are particularly vulnerable during such times. The pandemic has reinforced inequities, with marginalized communities facing greater brunt in terms of economic insecurity and lack of access to work (Kantamneni, 2020). Apart from economic insecurity, research indicates that lockdowns are likely to impact people’s sense of well-being and exacerbate feelings of isolation (Banerjee, 2020; Galea et al., 2020). In case of PLHIV community members, the perceived stigma associated with HIV has been found to inhibit their formation of social networks, possibly resulting in a higher sense of isolation and anxiety (Marziali et al., 2020). At the same time, burdened health care systems due to Covid-19 have led to delays in accessing antiretroviral treatment (ART), causing health-related uncertainties (Iversen et al., 2020).