Critical Preparedness, Readiness and Response Actions for COVID-19 - Interim Guidance Note - WHO

Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
22 Mar 2020
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Epidemics & pandemics, Health, Standards

All countries should increase their level of preparedness, alert and response to identify, manage and care for new cases of COVID-19. Countries should prepare to respond to different public health scenarios, recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing cases and outbreaks of COVID-19. Each country should assess its risk and rapidly implement the necessary measures at the appropriate scale to reduce both COVID-19 transmission and economic, public and social impacts.’ This provides links to WHO guidance materials and provides the full list of WHO technical guidance available for COVID-19 and provides updated recommendations in the table.

Authors: 
WHO