Along with these restrictions measures the MoH dedicated 25 hospitals for COVID-19 patients with 80,000 hospital beds and 8000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities, did mass testing, contact tracing and mandatory medical isolation of suspected and confirmed cases. In addition, government also enforced a few more steps such as imposing partial to complete lockdown of cities depending on its outbreak situation, prohibiting mass gatherings even in private places such as home, imposing all public health measures recommended by the WHO and the Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) with heavy penalty for violation. The measures taken by the KSA included, but not limited to, closing the international borders, closing the two grand mosques in Mecca and Medina for both national and international religious tourists closing all mosques for prayers including Friday prayers, closing inter-regional public and private transports including air travel, closing down all shopping malls, gymnasiums, and other public recreational facilities, closing all public offices apart from vital service providers, closing all educational institutions and moving to online teaching. To contain the COVID-19 epidemic locally and globally and to limit human and economic losses, the KSA took one of the strictest approaches. ![]() KSA started implementing early preventive measures even before any case was recorded in the country. ĬOVID-19 therapeutic strategies are only supportive, thus prevention of transmission of the disease in the community is the best strategy. Since then, as of January 18, 2021, the epidemic of COVID-19 has spread over 206 cities and infected 3,65,099 people and caused 6329 deaths in the KSA. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the first case of COVID-19 was reported on Ma. This makes it difficult to suppress the speed of the transmission of the disease.Īs of January 18, 2021, globally there have been 93,611,355 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 2,022,405 deaths (World Health Organization (WHO, 2020). An infected case can spread the disease even in the time between suspecting the case and confirmation of the case. It is highly infectious with an incubation period of 2–14 days. COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and ravaged the world to become a pandemic. It will highlight the 'hits' and the 'misses' and give leaders a strong sense of what to do within their own organizations should this happen again.Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly discovered infectious disease of the respiratory system which is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2). Seen through the eyes of CEOs of billion-dollar corporations from across the world, this book chronicles the experience of various industries going into The Great Lockdown and navigating the crisis through initiatives impacting people, processes, and technology. Healthcare supplies, personal care, home care, ICT and digital collaboration, online learning, online gaming, eCommerce, catering are seeing demand spike during The Great Lockdown. However, some other industries are seeing a net positive impact from COVID-19. ![]() ![]() Many industries are seeing a net negative impact due to COVID-19 - tourism & leisure, aerospace, mobility, construction & real estate, and manufacturing. ![]() Different countries and industries are feeling different degrees of impact from COVID-19. The implications for consumer behaviors and businesses are profound. The Great Lockdown is an event not seen in the last 100 years.
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