Flattening Covid-19 Curve in Rivers State Nigeria; Issues in Second Lockdown and Physical Distancing of Diobu Axis of Port Harcourt

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ID22239000
AuthorsMaduawuchi Elem (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume3
Issue1
Pages32-36
Publication date2021-01-20
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2664-4002 • E-ISSN: 2664-6714
PublisherSASPR Edu International Pvt. Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.36346/sarjhss.2021.v03i01.006
OpenAlexW3169372039
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

The work is a qualitative paper that focused attention on evaluating Rivers State government COVID-19 second lockdown and physical distancing of Diobu area of Port Harcourt.The study was informed by why the flat disregard by the residents of the area for such life-saving health policy to the extent that government isolated the area for another phase of lockdown when it relaxed lockdown in other areas of the state.At the end, the core reason for the people general disobedient is that lockdown contradict the peoples' age long informal economy business practice which provide them with daily money without savings among other reasons.This finding of this work has significant relevance in other related empirical literatures on lockdown and physical distancing in low income and informal dominated population.Based on this, the work recommend, in case of similar case, more concentration of palliative and cash gift to such highly low income population with daily income as this will remove the worries associated with lockdown which is strange to them

Distancing · Electrical engineering · Flattening · Port harcourt · Socioeconomics · Sociology · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications · Engineering · Impulse Buying and Technology Impacts · Mathematics · Medicine · Mechanical Engineering

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