COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital.

Jessica Chaziya; Bridget Freyne; Samantha Lissauer; Maryke Nielsen; Josephine Langton; Bernadette O'Hare; Liz Molyneux; Christopher Moxon; Pui-Ying Iroh Tam; Lucy Hoskyns; Henderson Masanjala; Sakina Ilepere; Memory Ngwira; Kondwani Kawaza; Daniel Mumba; Yamikani Chimalizeni; Queen Dube

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2020-319980

COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital.

Jessica Chaziya, Bridget Freyne, Samantha Lissauer, Maryke Nielsen, Josephine Langton, Bernadette O'Hare, Liz Molyneux, Christopher Moxon, Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, Lucy Hoskyns, Henderson Masanjala, Sakina Ilepere, Memory Ngwira, Kondwani Kawaza, Daniel Mumba, Yamikani Chimalizeni, Queen Dube

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The COVID-19 pandemic curve in Africa has lagged behind that of Europe. The first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Malawi was confirmed on 2 April.1 Malawi closed schools and airports, but no ‘lockdown’ was enforced in recognition of the risk to a population vulnerable to economic and health service disruption.2 Although overall ascertainment was low, detection of cases nationwide confirmed community transmission by July. Nonetheless, the number of acute cases presenting to hospital remained less than expected. The current total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide is just over 60001 with Blantyre district contributing one-third of the nationwide total

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	238-240
Number of pages	3
Journal	Archives of Disease in Childhood
Volume	106
Issue number	3
Early online date	23 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319980
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2021

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health services research
HIV
microbiology
mortality

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Chaziya, J., Freyne, B., Lissauer, S., Nielsen, M., Langton, J., O'Hare, B., Molyneux, L., Moxon, C., Iroh Tam, P.-Y., Hoskyns, L., Masanjala, H., Ilepere, S., Ngwira, M., Kawaza, K., Mumba, D., Chimalizeni, Y., & Dube, Q. (2021). COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children's hospital. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(3), 238-240. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319980

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