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China: From Zero-Covid to Zero-Control
Medical equipment supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) arrives in Beijing. Meanwhile, as COVID-19 infections surged in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency in Geneva on January 3, to discuss next steps. Photo courtesy of Yingshi ZhangBy Jan ServaesBRUSSELS, Jan 4 2023 (IPS) Three years after the coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Chinese government began in December to abruptly scrap its harsh containment policy known as “zero-Covid.” This zero-Covid policy relied on strict lockdowns, use of a Covid tracking app, domestic travel restrictions, and quarantin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Servaes Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental interns in Saudi Arabia
CONCLUSION: The current study demonstrates that COVID-19 had disrupted dental interns' preparedness towards clinical rotation and decreased their confidence performing in the clinical setup. Due to being unprepared and having low confidence, most dental interns were not ready to start working in the hospital before time.PMID:35253697 | DOI:10.3233/WOR-205377
Source: Work - March 7, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Syed Fareed Mohsin Shahzad Ali Shah Muhammad Atif Saleem Agwan Saqib Ali Ziyad Ahmad Alsuwaydani Saleh Ahmad AlSuwaydani Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 2180: Maintaining Clinical Training Continuity during COVID-19 Pandemic: Nursing Students & rsquo; Perceptions about Simulation-Based Learning
Conclusions: SBL is a valuable teaching strategy that enhances nursing students’ self-awareness, self-confidence, clinical performance, and efficiency in performing procedures with considerable gender variation. Female students had more positive perceptions toward simulation effectiveness.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - February 15, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Sitah Alshutwi Fatmah Alsharif Faygah Shibily Almutairi Wedad M. Monir M. Almotairy Maram Algabbashi Tags: Article Source Type: research

Sensors, Vol. 22, Pages 1006: Stance Analysis of Distance Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Arabic Twitter Data
This study collected 1,846,285 tweets to analyze the public’s dynamic opinions towards distance education in the KSA during the 2020 academic year. Several classical machine-learning models and deep-learning models, including ensemble random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), multinomial naïve Bayes (MNB), convolutional neural network (CNN), and long short-term memory (LSTM), were tested on this data, and the best-performing models were selected to analyze the public stance towards distance education. Additionally, I correlated my analysis with the major even...
Source: Sensors - January 27, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tahani Alqurashi Tags: Article Source Type: research

Saudi Arabia locks down province, halts travel with nine nations over coronavirus
Saudi Arabia imposed on Sunday a temporary lockdown on its eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to most of its 15 coronavirus infections, and suspended schools and universities nationwide.
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news