Tropical Medicine and Health (Jul 2021)

Epidemic of plague amidst COVID-19 in Madagascar: efforts, challenges, and recommendations

  • Abdullahi Tunde Aborode,
  • Ana Carla dos Santos Costa,
  • Anmol Mohan,
  • Samarth Goyal,
  • Aishat Temitope Rabiu,
  • Christos Tsagkaris,
  • Olivier Uwishema,
  • Oumaima Outani,
  • Shoaib Ahmad,
  • Mohammad Yasir Essar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00349-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 49, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract The plague has been wreaking havoc on people in Madagascar with the COVID-19 pandemic. Madagascar’s healthcare sector is striving to respond to COVID-19 in the face of a plague outbreak that has created a new strain on the country’s public health system. The goal and activities of the gradual epidemic of plague in Madagascar during COVID-19 are described in this research. In order to contain the plague and the COVID-19 pandemic in this country, we have suggested long-term recommendations that can help to contain the outbreak so that it may spread to non-endemic areas.

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