Risk stratification and assessment framework for international travel and border measures amidst the COVID-19 pandemic - A Malaysian perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guided by the best practices adapted from national and international bodies including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the UK Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), this paper aims to develop and provide an empirical risk stratification and assessment framework for advancing the safe resumption of global travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method

Variables included in our model are categorized into four pillars: (i) incidence of cases, (ii) reliability of case data, (iii) vaccination, and (iv) variant surveillance. These measures are combined based on weights that reflect their corresponding importance in risk assessment within the context of the pandemic to calculate the risk score for each country. As a validation step, t

SUBMITTER: Omar K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8949657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature