An urgent call to collect data related to COVID-19 and Indigenous populations globally

SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now reached pandemic status. As of 31 January 2021, COVID-19 has been detected in 188 countries/regions and all continents except Antarctica. A total of more than 100 million cases have been detected so far with some c...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:BMJ Global Health
Main Authors: Mallard, Alistair, Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, Ward, James
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Subjects:
Humans
SARS-CoV-2
Public Health
COVID-19
epidemiology
health policy
Epidemiologic Methods
COVID-19/epidemiology/ethnology/prevention & control/therapy
Data Collection/*methods/standards
Indigenous Peoples/statistics & numerical data
Vulnerable Populations
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.00
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.02
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9191
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004655
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Summary:SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now reached pandemic status. As of 31 January 2021, COVID-19 has been detected in 188 countries/regions and all continents except Antarctica. A total of more than 100 million cases have been detected so far with some countries showing disproportionately more cases than others, in particular the USA, Brazil, Russia, India, Peru and Mexico. Currently, it is understood that SARS-CoV-2 is spread through respiratory droplets and direct contact. The reproduction number (R0) of SARS-CoV-2 has been estimated to be in the range of 1.40–6.49 with a mean of 3.28. Any virus with an R0 above 1 is indicative of a virus with increasing number of infections.

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