Publications by authors named "Fathmath N Rafeeg"
A sero-epidemiological study after two waves of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Raheema Abdul-Raheem Sheena Moosa Fazeela Waheed Maimoona Aboobakuru Ibrahim N Ahmed Fathmath N Rafeeg
Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol
September 2024
Background: The COVID-19 situation in Maldives have evolved since the epidemic began in March 2020 with unprecedented increase in cases since mid-July 2019 with over 8000 cases at the end of August 2020.
Objective: The aim of the sero-epidemiological investigation is to obtain a sense of the population exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 by measuring the seroprevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 in the general population.
Methods: A population-based, age-stratified prospective method was employed to find out the key epidemiological and serologic characteristics of COVID-19 virus in this study.