Extended Data Fig. 1: Trends in total outpatient visits in seven countries from January 2019 to June 2021.
From: COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries
The dots are the average monthly number of outpatient visits per sub-national unit (observed) in 2019-2020 (blue) and 2021 (orange). The x-axis is January 2019 to May 2021 in Korea and January 2019 to June 2021 in Ethiopia, Laos, Mexico, Thailand, and South Africa. In Nepal, the last month ends on July 15, 2021, due to a different calendar. The y-axes are the total services provided. The vertical black line shows the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vertical grey line, the beginning of the potential resumption period (last quarter of 2020). The green trend line is the predicted trend based on pre-COVID-19 months. The black dotted line is the temporal trend adjusted for seasonality. The red line is the temporal trend in the 6 months after the pandemic was declared (April to September 2020). The orange dotted line is the trend from October 2020 to May or June 2021. In Ghana and Haiti, these data were only available until December 2020 and are presented in the main text. In South Africa outpatient visits are only reported by hospitals and thus only represent a fraction of service provision. In Chile, outpatient visits were not available.
