Commentary: Challenges of COVID-19 screening of health care workers in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean region

The Eastern Mediterranean region has been severely affected by COVID-19. Countries have suffered from wave 3 of the COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 virus, after the first wave started in China and the second wave started in Europe. Good-quality data are lacking on the precise extent of infection. However, conditions that favour spread include large populations living in overcrowded cities (in Egypt especially given it is a country of close to 100 million people), inadequate healthcare and lack of transparency and accountability of governments.1
Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research