Received:
2020-03-18 | Accepted:
2020-07-10 | Published:
2020-09-30
Title
Effects of COVID-19 pandemy on African health, political and economic strategy
Abstract
The appearance of COVID-19 is proving to be a difficult challenge not only for Africa but for the whole world. In order to prevent and curb, the leaders of the countries had to introduce health, economic and political changes and regulations, which were repeatedly sharply criticized. Although statistics show that the spread of the virus in Africa was far from the same as in China, Europe or the Americas, the world's strictest restrictions had to be put in place to stop the pandemic. At the same time, Africa has cut itself off from its main supporters, making its economic situation more difficult and risking the already weak stability of African societies.
Keywords
Africa, COVID-19, social effects of coronavirus, crisis
JEL classifications
R59
, I15
, N17
URI
http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/42
DOI
HAL
Pages
630-644
Funding
The research is supported by Doctoral School of Safety and Secutity Studies, Óbuda Uniersity, Hungary
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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