The outbreak of COVID 19 made many poor communities in different places of the world face very challenging socioeconomic and livelihood consequences. This paper targets to analyse this socioeconomic impact to determine how the pandemic is causing various problems to the impoverished. An integrative literature review was carried out to sample the consequences of the global pandemic economic crisis on the poor communities in four different continents. The research points out how it is hard on the poor to adhere to the restrictive measures of social isolation or the lockdown. Immediate strategies that minimize the pandemic impact on the livelihood and the socioeconomic activities of the poor are suggested. The research opens future research about more specialised programs for the poor during any future lockdowns.

This paper explores the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses capacity of delivering services to infected patients with minimal risks. The role of nursing during the first four months since the outbreak of the COVID-19 is reviewed. The nursing, both preventive service and response preparedness are evaluated along with their human factor in such a crisis are evaluated. Then the researchers argue about the importance of human factor tools and how they could impact the different challenges and risks that the nurses are going through during the COVID-19 pandemic at various stages, till the time of this paper. A specific framework is exploited, and its implications and limitations are discussed. This research makes two main contributions. From a theoretical perspective, it sheds light on how specific dimensions of human factor could help to raise the capacity of the nurses and their availability, therefore their reliability during a dynamic and complex pandemic as COVID-19. From a practical implication, this study could help prepare nurses for the coming pandemics with better overall productivity effectiveness that would lead to less nurses suffering, beside minimisation of risks and most of all deaths. Future research may extend the present study and test the various propositions made, notably through alternative data collection methods.

Coronavirus pandemics causes systemic and mainly pulmonary changes. We assessed the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in pandemic survivors and the general population. Papers indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed, The Cochrane, Embase, Lilacs, Scielo, Psycoinfo, and Pepsic databases were searched to April 2020, using GAD and Coronavirus (CoV) infection as keywords. Sixteen studies with 25,779 participants in eight countries were included. A 46% pooled prevalence of anxiety symptoms (95% CI 33.9–58.2%) was found with significant evidence of between-study heterogeneity (Q = 154953, I2 = 99.99%, p < 0.001). Age and sex were not found to be significant moderators for anxiety symptoms. Intervention programs for anxiety symptoms are highly recommended.

This paper explores requirements of employability competency in the new normal; an era expected post- the COVID-19 pandemic. The research conceptualises and integrates approaches that would address how to prepare individuals for times of uncertainties, changes and challenges they most probably would face during the new normal.A framework for employability competency during new normal is proposed, followed by a toolkit that ensures we stay resilient to meet the variety of demands and the conditions expected during significant transformation times. This work opens a new line of research for empirical research that would support employability and competency development planners in the coming decades.

Throughout history, epidemics gave humans many challenges, but yet also brought with it many visible and hidden opportunities. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is no except, and in this paper, we foresight the opportunities for a better world that this deadly crisis brings to us. We review different opportunities that this virus and similar recent incidents, like SARS, brought to our life. Then, we pause to visualise through rethinking, redefining and reframing the hidden opportunities inside the (COVID-19) and similar coming problems and challenges. This "think outside of the box" paper create new pathways toward more inspiring economies that would address the key elements we started to miss in our development journey. Integrating future foresight into such problem-solving attempts could create for us more future-informed generations that take participatory actions towards humans' complex challenges with high availability and preparedness. The paper concludes with a proposed framework to exploit the opportunities of such a complex crisis while mitigating its risks. Further studies are highly recommended if we are to see solutions that could save humanity from the coming crisis.