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March 15, 10-11am

Join us on Blackboard: tinyurl.com/wicidcovidbenin

Speakers

Alessia Maccaro - University of Warwick

Leandro Pecchia - University of Warwick

Davide Piaggio - University of Warwick

Marius Vignigbé - University of Abomey Calavi

Roch A. Houngnihin - University of Abomey-Calavi

Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020, after the first infections in China at the end of 2019, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global emergency and continued to spread across the world. No continent, including Republic of Benin in Africa and Italy in Europe, has been able to escape this disease. Its impact on human health, is disrupting an interconnected world economy through global value chains, given the impact on the entire world population and the economy.

In Benin, from 14th March 2020, the evolution of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is epidemiologically recorded at 3363 cases confirmed, 95 cases recovered, 46 case dead (January 2021).

Even if the social contexts seem very different, the pandemic creates in healthcare systems of all around the world, a generalized condition of low-resource settings (LRSs), i.e., environments lacking means, specific knowledge, specialized personnel, medical devices, and drugs, and with inappropriate medical locations. In fact, while this condition was already familiar to low- and middle-income countries, COVID-19 has overwhelmingly reported LRS conditions in high-income countries, such as Europe. In addition, the social and ethical impact of the pandemic calls sociology and bioethics to reflect on the perception that the population has of this situation, i.e. the possibility to respect the measures of isolation, the availability of personal protection equipment, the criteria for access to the scarce health resources available.

We are so pleased to launch the trailer of our Everyday in Lockdown photography exhibition, which gathers photos from lockdowns around the world. As the world goes through lockdown there are myriad stories of how peoples' lives have changed during this period. It is this shift that we wish to record through photographs. If people from every walk of life were to record their everyday lives under lockdown we would be able to share the constraints of this period and to analyse its differential effects across countries, genders and class boundaries.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh31oTE94MA

Come back for the full video on March 11!

Thanks to Mouli Banerjee for her amazing work on this project.

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