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Vol. 9 (2024), Issue 2, pg(s) 61-65

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Health harms and effects after Covid-19 pandemic: Comparison with neighbouring countries

  • 1 Department of Mathematics, Mathematical and Physical Engineering Faculty Polytechnic University of Tirana

Abstract

It has been at least 3 years out the risk of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, a war that continues to have negative effects on people’s behaviour towards other risks because every day that everyday cases of complications are reported even in cases who passed it. This paper presents an overview of the lives lost by Covid-19 in Albania during the first wave of the pandemic as well as the negative effects of people who passed an infection or received the recommended treatment. The focus of our study is on the estimation of case fatality rates (CFRs), referring to the accumulated Covid-19 case data from the World Health Organization website, using simple linear regression for Albania and its neighbour’s. More than three years into the COVID pandemic, both the virus and the measures taken to control its spread have affected people’s lives across the globe. But how can we fully quantify these effects? This is the main topic of this research work.

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