Updated Surveillance Metrics and History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2023) in the Middle East and North Africa: Longitudinal Trend Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study updates the COVID-19 pandemic surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) we first conducted in 2020 with 2 additional years of data for the region.

Objective

The objective of this study is to determine whether the MENA region meets the criteria for moving from a pandemic to endemic. In doing so, this study considers pandemic trends, dynamic and genomic surveillance methods, and region-specific historical context for the pandemic. These considerations continue through the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of the end of the public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic on May 5, 2023.

Methods

In addition to updates to traditional surveillance data and dynamic panel estimates from the original study by Post et al, this stu

SUBMITTER: Soetikno AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208839 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature