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Report 3, published 19 July 2021. Fully open-access.We conducted a nationally representative online survey in Ghana (N = 1295) throughout June 2021.In our analyses, we operationalised vaccine hesitancy as respondents who answered ‘no’ and ‘I don’t know’ to the question: “When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available to you, would you like to get vaccinated?” Some top-level findings to share - willingness to vaccinate dropped from 82% in March, to 71% in June 2021 - Therefore, to phrase another way, there was an observed and significant increase in hesitancy, from 18% to 29% across this time period. - 32% of respondents reported that they had recently seen or heard stories about the indecision surrounding the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine rollout in Europe and North America. Of this 32% subgroup, 62.0% of them indicated that these stories made them feel worried about accepting the COVID-19 vaccine in the future. - our main predictors of hesitancy continue to include: i) education (more educated people were more likely to be hesitant; one hypothesis is perhaps more likely to have greater access to the internet and thus availability of misinformation via social media); ii) females more hesitant than males; and iii) political allegiance (voting for the opposition parties was greater predictor of hesitancy). We hope that this information can be helpful with informing the health promotion efforts from the GHS, Ministry of Health and other stakeholders. For the previous report from this series of Ghana surveys (covering surveys in August 2020 and March 2021), see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351327020_Examining_drivers_of_COVID-19_vaccine_hesitancy_in_Ghana

This module aims to explore Digital Contact Tracing (D-CT) developed and implemented in South Africa for the COVID-19 response. Focus is on their D-CT app, COVID Alert SA, and understanding user-uptake. The case study begins with a brief overview of the country’s overall response to COVID-19 and the impact of the virus on the country. Following, we explain South Africa’s app by describing, how it emerged, how it is designed and functions, how users engage with the app across the whole user-engagement process, and what user-uptake looks like in the country. The next section describes the main factors that emerged in our research for this country that suggest influencing user-uptake within the country’s context including communications & misinformation, accessibility & inclusion, public trust, and response infrastructure. This section ends with a brief conclusion

O objetivo deste estudo foi aplicar a metodologia de análise e solução de problemas em uma empresa de educação que atende crianças como suporte na solução de problemas durante a pandemia do novo coronavírus. Para isso, um estudo de caso foi realizado aplicando as etapas de identificação, observação, análise do problema, plano de ação, ação, verificação, padronização e conclusão, que perfazem um ciclo da metodologia. Esse ciclo foi aplicado sete vezes ao longo deste estudo de modo a mitigar os problemas que foram surgindo. Foi escolhida uma escola particular que atende crianças com idade inferior a 10 anos e superior a 2 anos situada na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte. Em conclusão, o estudo auxiliou na melhora da relação entre a escola e família durante o período pandêmico, na implantação e no fornecimento das atividades de aperfeiçoamento pedagógico e das aulas on-line acessíveis aos alunos, na precificação das mensalidades, no sistema de avaliação, na organização dos planos de aulas de acordo com a exigência da Secretaria de Educação, no processo de matrícula e nas adequações para o possível retorno das aulas presenciais.

This report describes a preliminary study that took place during the second semester of the school year 2019–2020, where suddenly classes had to be held online due to COVID 19 pandemic. Kahoot! a gamified application was used in some of the problem-solving classes of an undergraduate physics course of the integrated masters of the Electrical and Computers Engineering program. The quizzes applied covered rigid body dynamics and thermodynamics, both contents included in the syllabus of the course. The study was planned prior to the pandemic and the necessary adjustments of teaching online altered the goals. A simple analysis of the data obtained with the Kahoot! quizzes is performed and the results are discussed in the context of the positive and negative effects of “going online”.

El objetivo es proporcionar a los miembros de la Comisión de Empleo y Asuntos Sociales (EMPL) un análisis del impacto de la crisis del COVID-19 en los jóvenes, proporcionando información actualizada sobre su situación económica y social, con un enfoque sobre el empleo. ESP

La pandémie de COVID-19 a frappé la Turquie à partir du mois de mars. Le gouvernement turc a suivi peu ou prou la même stratégie adoptée par la plupart des gouvernements européens. D’une part, des mesures de confinement ont été introduites à partir du mois d’avril et d’autre part, diverses mesures de soutien telles qu’ajournement d’impôts, transferts de revenus aux ménages pauvres, garanties publiques au crédit bancaire, subventions salariales aux travailleurs en chômage partiel ont été lancées pour amortir les effets du choc sur les revenus et l’emploi. En mai, Le gouvernement turc a même interdit aux employeurs de licencier leurs employés tout en leur accordant le droit de les mettre en congé sans solde. Ces diverses mesures ont pu certainement limiter la contraction du PIB au deuxième semestre mais une contraction tout de même sévère a provoqué la perte de 2 millions d’emplois. Le taux de chômage déjà élevé à la veille de la pandémie (14,8 %) a fait un bond appréciable (à 16,5 %) mais en fait le niveau atteint par le chômage officiel a été largement sous-estimé dans la mesure où le nombre de chômeurs n’a augmenté que de 155 000 ; cela sans compter plus d’un million de travailleurs, officiellement en emploi mais sans travail.

The Eurozone and the European Union have recently been confronted with a number of existential threats. The sovereign debt crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have forced European decisionmakers to pass important reforms which have radically transformed the nature and scope of the Union's powers in the field of economic and fiscal policy. As the new economic governance of the Eurozone emerges as the main driver of integration in today's Europe, this book seeks to assess the solidity of the constitutional foundations supporting that system, and its compliance with the Union's core founding value: the rule of law. Using competence allocation, regulatory quality, access to external review and fundamental rights sustainability as analytical benchmarks, this book argues that the recent metamorphosis of Eurozone economic governance has not been accompanied by a parallel strengthening of its constitutional settlement, leading to a problematic misalignment between the Union's action and its governing principles. Introduction -- The new economic governance of the Eurozone : structure and functioning -- Post-crisis economic policy coordination in the Eurozone : a conceptual appraisal through the governance perspective -- The new economic governance of the Eurozone and the competence allocation system -- The internal quality of the new economic governance of the Eurozone : the case of fiscal policy rules -- The new economic governance of the Eurozone and the (im)possibilities of external review -- The new economic governance of the Eurozone and the sustainability of EU fundamental rights -- Conclusion : the rule of law, the role of law and economic governance in the Eurozone.