Assessment of risk management and control measures against coronavirus disease

• Main Authors: Khalil Ur Rehman, Shahla Andleeb, Saleh Alfarraj, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Adeel Mahmood
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
• Series: Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
• Subjects: Risk assessment; Disease management; Virus spread; Pandemic; Situation analysis
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X21001157

This article presents the COVID-19 situation and control measures taken by the Government of Pakistan. Two waves of pandemic are faced globally and similar in the study area. We have investigated the risk management decision in two phases. Primarily, strict lockdown was observed from March 2020 to July 2020 and smart lockdown was enforced from August 2020 to December 2020. It has been studied that during strict lockdown, COVID cases reduced gradually but reopening of institutes and smart lockdown strategy resulted gradual increase in confirmed cases and death rates. During first wave of COVID-19 in Pakistan, a total confirmed number of patients of COVID-19 were 263,496 till 18th of July 2020 with total deaths of 5,568 people and 204,276 recoveries, while total number of COVID-19 patients reached 555,511 till 9th of February 2021 with total deaths of 12,026 people. Province of Sindh was affected badly with total number of 251,434 COVID-19 cases followed by Punjab Province with total number of 161,347 COVID-19 till 9th of February 2020.