Lamptey, E.Yaidoo, S.Boakye, E.O.et al.2023-10-052023-10-052022DOI: 10.1002/hcs2.20http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/40274Research ArticleThe COVID‐19 pandemic, which spread quickly across the globe toward the end of 2019 and throughout 2020 impacted almost every aspect of daily life [1]. It generated unprecedented uncertainty in the global economy,and disrupted daily routines. Individuals must navigate quarantines, school closing, job insecurity, significantly impairing the physical, mental, social, financial well‐ being of people [2–5]. The impact of the pandemic was more severe than global financial crisis, which was devastating as well to the health and welfare of the human population [6]. The World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020 announced that the SARS‐CoV‐2 crisis affected all humans globally with countless fatalities, destabilizing the economy order [7]. Preliminary estimates indicate that the total number of global “excess death” attributable to COVID‐19 in 2020 amount to at least 3 million or higher than official figures tracked by the WHO [8, 9].enMonkey poxCOVID‐19pathogensArticle