While the world faces unprecedented COVID-19 case numbers, vaccination rates in many countries are stagnating. A differentiated understanding of the concerns of the unvaccinated population seems urgently needed to design successful communication strategies. We conducted an original survey...

This paper presents the results of a survey exploring the determinants of vacinees' confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and their motivations to become vaccinated. At the threatening rise of the highly infectious Omicron variant, in December 2021, we interviewed people in waiting lines of...

Beginning in December 2019, the coronavirus swept quickly through all regions of the world. COVID 19 has wreaked social, political and economic havoc everywhere and has shown few signs of entirely abating. The recent development and approval of new vaccines against the virus, however, now...

In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark ( n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive...

When speaking of extraordinary powers, we usually think of powers available to the executive during times of emergency. The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted fundamentally the functioning of States, their democratic institutions and legal systems. Therefore, it is understandable that governments...

This study investigates distance learning of English as a second language in primary and secondary schools in the Republic of N. Macedonia during the COVID-19 pandemic, which started in March 2020 when the government of our country, like everywhere else, decided to close the schools in order to...

In the period of the post-earthquake reconstruction, it was stated that Skopje should face the "new normality" of the city. Sixty years later, "new normality" is becoming a global phenomenon in the face of the effects of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease. It is becoming...

During pandemic times, like the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, the chance of spreading the virus in the community and the individual health risk of the population especially for chronic patients is imminent. The dramatic increase of Covid-19 cases and the various health measures issued by the governments...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health disaster having significant influence on economic, mental health and well-being of entire world population including North Macedonia. The existing literature is suggesting changes in the work performance and job satisfaction influencing mental...

This study investigates the level of politeness in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic by using the speech acts of request, apology and compliment in English. The organization that is subject to research is University American College Skopje - a private higher-education institution in the...