Abstract:

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is a very serious pandemic disease which threatens many people’s life around the world. Covid-19 has currently killed 5,783,776 people and with 404,910,528 Confirmed cases. The objective was to explore the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Clinical and non-Clinical Staff working in the United Nations in Burundi from 1st March 2020 to 31st January 2022. This research was conducted under a cross-sectional study design and used a self-administered structured questionnaire. A total of 1400 participants out of 1432 were included in this study from 1st March 2020 to 31st January 2022. Univariate and bivariate analysis were processed using SPSS 25, and Chi-square test were calculated with a p<0.05. The findings of this study showed that 188(13.4%) of females and 224(16%) of males were covid-19 positive. Different age structures with Covid-19 were respectively, 29(2.1%) were with 21-30 years, 109(7.8%) with 31-40 years, 130(9.3%) with 41-50 years and 142(10.2%) with >50 years. However, the gender and age structure relationship for contracting Covid-19 was not statistically significant, X²=0.01, p=0.9 for gender and x²=6.4, p=0.9. The clinical staff with covid-19 were 33(2.4%) out of 66. Thus, 33(50%) for clinical employees were positive. Also, the positivity rates in non-clinical employees were 379(27.1%) among 1334 participants, while only 28.4% were positive. The relationship was highly significant, X²=14.1, p<0.001. As a conclusion, the evaluation of the Covid-19 morbidity impact was crucial to emphasize on the invested effort to protect the non-clinical UN employees and to plan a highly monitored policy for clinical employees to minimize their infection rate.

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