BMC Public Health (Jul 2022)

Does COVID-19 lockdowns have impacted on global dengue burden? A special focus to India

  • Hemlata Sharma,
  • Ashal Ilyas,
  • Abhiroop Chowdhury,
  • Nitesh Kumar Poddar,
  • Anis Ahmad Chaudhary,
  • Sireen Abdul Rahim Shilbayeh,
  • Alnada Abdalla Ibrahim,
  • Shahanavaj Khan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13720-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Highlights • COVID-19 has increased the burden on the health care system across the globe. • COVID-19 has inverse relation with the occurrence of Dengue cases. • Dengue situation is worse in countries with low GDP. • Human behavior and social distancing have direct correlation with the number of Dengue cases. • Cross-reactivity or overlap between Dengue and COVID-19, has proportional effect on each other.

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