"has lockdo2n helped in the containment of covid 19" argumentative essay
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Yes lockdown has helped in containment
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But because of some uneducated people it is not ending...
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Introduction
Many authors have tried to predict the incidence of COVID-19 in China (1). The outbreak, nonetheless, has rapidly accelerated outside China and was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 (2). Thus, serious debates were raised on ways to react to the transmission of this disease. China was the first to implement a complete lockdown of Wuhan and at least 16 other cities by the end of January to try to contain the causal virus (SARS-CoV-2), then the world followed, which can now be described as the largest quarantine in human history. However, an alternative approach was adopted by many countries including the UK and the US that is to achieve herd immunity. Herd immunity refers to having as many lower risk people infected as possible and thus become immune while minimizing the exposure of people who are vulnerable (3, 4).
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, along with its Mediterranean peers, has been explicitly attempting to limit the spread of the virus and, hopefully, eradicate it. Hence, the Lebanese government has adopted one of the strictest lockdowns in the Middle East and North Arica (MENA) region even before a single death was reported, and has isolated infections to keep the disease at bay. As a matter of fact, the Lebanese government was trying to combat COVID-19 amid its worst financial and economic crisis since the Lebanese civil war and at a time of wide spread protests raging across the country demanding political and economic reforms.
In this study we aim to show, with real time incidence data, that the country lockdown imposed by the Lebanese government will have a critical and significant impact on reducing the spread of the virus and eventually containing it. More specifically, we present results of an analysis of COVID-19 cases in Lebanon pre- and post-lockdown measures. The data show that post-lockdown daily cases decreased, thereby, demonstrating that the lockdown measures have been successful in, so far, containing the disease. To the best of our knowledge, this study would be the first in the Middle East to analyze and predict the spread of COVID-19 before and after containment measures such as lockdowns have been implemented, and would therefore be of benefit to neighboring countries until similar studies are conducted in the region.