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    [id] => 18081
    [paper_index] => 202508-07-023871
    [title] => IMPACT OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE AFRICAN ECONOMY
    [description] => 
    [author] => Wycliffe Mugun
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    [doi] => 
    [year] => 2025
    [month] => November
    [volume] => 12
    [issue] => 11
    [file] => fm/jpanel/upload/2025/November/202508-07-023871.pdf
    [abstract] => The first case of corona virus disease (covid-19) in Africa was reported in Egypt on February 14, 2020 and to date virtually all countries on the African continent had reported cases totaling to 67,000 with nearly 52% of them in five countries. However, as the pandemic spreads and countries continue to impose containment, the covid-19 pandemic was likely to impact agricultural production and productivity through its disruptive effects on input production and distribution leading to inordinate distortions of the planting calendars. The covid-19 amplified debt vulnerabilities in the region. The main objective of the study was to investigate the impact of corona virus pandemic on the African continent. Before, the crisis, there were five countries case in point; Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Seychelles with debt to GDP-ratios exceeding 50% in 2019.However, this crisis has at the same time exposed critical gaps in the regional health system. In terms of the financing, quality and adequacy of the health system, the region was unfortunately ill-prepared for a pandemic. Most Eastern African economies spend less than USD $ 50 per capita on health, which is less than half of the African average. The study concluded that the corona virus disease has become a severe pandemic and posed many serious challenges at national, regional and global levels. The consequences even if they are difficult to calculate, are expected to be enormous in view of the rapid covid-19 and the drastic measures taken by countries whatever their size worldwide. The study recommends that the African countries should check systematically all suspected cases in order to ensure early detection of the infection and trace as much as possible infection and forestall contacts between infected patients and the healthy population.
    [keywords] => Impact, Corona Virus, African Economy
    [doj] => 2025-11-11
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    [status] => 
    [award_status] => P
    [orderr] => 7
    [journal_id] => 7
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    [is_status] => 1
    [journalname] => EPRA International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies (EBMS)
    [short_code] => IJHS
    [eissn] => 2347-4378
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)
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