The COVID‑19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to our daily life. It has impacted the whole world and has forced governments to take extreme measures, ravel restrictions were imposed from late February on ...

With the continuously expanding pandemic of COVID‑19 and the need for attending non-COVID patients in a lockdown state, most healthcare institutions in the Greater Male’ area chose telemedicine as a route to consult patients. ...

In the global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic and the unparalleled health emergency, nurses are the largest healthcare professional group providing frontline care in hospitals as well as other areas such as quarantine and ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) is caused by a new coronavirus reported from Wuhan City, China. On 31st December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) China office was informed of cases of pneumonia of an unknown ...

The novelty of COVID‑19 prompted reliance on mathematical modelling to guide decision making and planning pandemic response. The compartment model using suspected, infected recovered and death (SIRD) as used in the Maldives ...

In the past four decades, research using qualitative methods is increasingly being used to create images of reality. The methods present a challenge because the process of collection and organization of these images are ...

This article presents the findings of a study aimed at assessing prospects for self-sufficiency in food on the island of Fuwahmulah, Maldives. A mixed research methodology combining a survey on a representative sample and ...

Since the introduction of the concept of ‘regulatory capture’ by George Stigler in 1971, there has been ample evidence, published globally, on how world class companies and powerful industries influence, and otherwise ...