Main description:

This books comprises of 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia.

FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.

Contents:

1.Introduction:

AUSTRALASIA

2.Under Promise and Over-deliver:The failure of political rhetoric in managing COVID-19 in Australia

3. COVID-19 and culture in Papua New Ginea.Failing to meet the challenges of diversity?

4.COVID-19 in Fiji: From health and economic to major political crisis

5. COVID-19 Vaccination trends and people's views and action in Japan

6. Through the lens of systems thinking:Analyzing the breakdown of a successful COVID-19 mitigation model in Taiwan

7.Lessons from COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea

8.Distribution and allocation of vaccines against COVID-19 and vaccination communication in Thailand

9. Resurgence of COVID-19 in Indonesia:Response to the critical second wave of pandemic

10.Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) and vaccine epidemiology in Malaysia

11.COVID-19 in Bangladesh:A spatio-Temporal and Gender analysis.

12.Crowded out:The pandemic's toll on non-COVID patients in India

Africa

13.COVID-19:Work,economic activity and its geo-spatiotemporal distribution in South Africa

14. Analyzing the dual nature of responses to COVID-19 in Lusaka city

15.COVID-19 patterns and waves in West Africa:A geographical perspective

Europe

16.Current development and impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

17. The pandemic in France reveals the vulnerability of society

18. Without risk? A sociological analysis of the vaccination programme in England

19. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How a mixed welfare regime has responded to the

Pandemic.

Americas

20.COVID-19 in Canada:Vaccination and the effects of the pandemic on health care workers and healthcare systems

21.Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination,infection and mortality in the United States during year-two of the pandemic and the influence of political orientation

22.COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in young adults and mitigation policies in the United States

23. Vaccination in Mexico as a political strategy

24. Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic on health services in Argentina

25. COVID-19 in Brazil: The experience of collecting citizen data in the city of Rio de Janeiro

26.Conclusion and Suggestions

Index