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The coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic affected the countries differently. South Africa is a middle-income country with a struggling economy and a resource-constrained public healthcare system. Three aspects of the pandemic in South Africa are examined, the lockdown and its effect on personal freedoms, how health care resources were used and the novel stratification of health workers into vulnerability categories. It is a perspective written after experiencing the first pandemic peak in 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all walks of life on an unprecedented scale. In the following report, we recount the experience of stroke and neurointerventional practitioners from different parts of India. It was written in September 2020 when the first wave of the pandemic was at its zenith in India and vaccines were not yet available.

The Japan healthcare system is considered as one of the world's finest. However, medical facilities across Japan are struggling to cope with the recent surge in novel coronavirus infections, leaving the medical care system in many areas on the brink of collapse. Physician burnout was already a growing problem, and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has only made it worse. The personal impact of coronavirus disease 2019 in Japan is reported.