Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society

Prof. Rais Akhtar is Adjunct Faculty and CO-P.I. on the Department of Science and Technology (Government of India) Project on climate change and health, at the International Institute of Health Management and Research, New Delhi. He has published more than 18 books and numerous articles on medical geography and climate change and health. Prof. Akhtar delivered lectures at a number of medical institutes including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Johns’ Hopkins University School of Public Health, and the Institute of Public Health, University of Pisa.He has also received numerous international fellowships, including Leverhulme and Henry Chapman fellowships of the University of Liverpool and the University of London, respectively, and the Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Nanterre. Prof. Rais Akhtar was elected Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, London, and Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Brussels. Prof. Akhtar was the Lead Author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Akhtar received Nobel Prize Memento after IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.

• 1.Introduction.- 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.- 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.- 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..- 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.