Title: 14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021

URL: https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2022-14.9-million-excess-deaths-were-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-2020-and-2021

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: 1st WHO infodemiology conference - How infodemics affect the world and how they can be managed

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/epi-win/infodemic-management/infodemiology-scientific-conference-booklet.pdf?sfvrsn=179de76a_4

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This virtual conference was held from June 29 to July 21, 2020, to understand the multidisciplinary nature of infodemic management; identify current examples and tools to understand, measure, and control infodemics; build a public health research agenda to direct focus and investment in this emerging scientific field; and establish a community of practice and research. This 44-page report provides the agenda for the conference, and discusses how, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, an infodemic is an overabundance of information 'some accurate and some not' occurring during an epidemic.

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Title: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/srp-04022020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 28-page strategic preparedness and response plan outlines the public health measures that the international community stands ready to provide to support all countries to prepare for and respond to 2019-nCoV. The document takes what has been learned so far about the virus, and translates that knowledge into strategic action that can guide the efforts of all national and international partners when developing context-specific national and regional operational plans.

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Title: A guide to WHO’s guidance on COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/a-guide-to-who-s-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: A guide to preventing and addressing social stigma associated with COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/a-guide-to-preventing-and-addressing-social-stigma-associated-with-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page guide to preventing and addressing social stigma associated with COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) is for government, media, and local organizations working on COVID-19. The current COVID-19 outbreak has provoked social stigma and discriminatory behaviors against people of certain ethnic backgrounds, as well as anyone perceived to have been in contact with the virus. The document details how to communicate about COVID-19 to support people to take effective action to help combat the disease and to avoid fueling fear and stigma.

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Title: Abuse of older people

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abuse-of-older-people

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response, Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/addressing-human-rights-as-key-to-the-covid-19-response

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document brings to attention key health and human rights considerations with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the importance of integrating a human rights-based approach in response to COVID-19. It provides key considerations in relation to addressing stigma and discrimination; prevention of violence against women; support for vulnerable populations; quarantine and restrictive measures; and shortages of supplies and equipment.

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Title: Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the covid-19 pandemic: Key actions

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Violence_actions-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Several countries affected by COVID-19 have seen increases in levels of violence occurring in the home, including violence against children, intimate partner violence, and violence against older people. Countries also face increasing challenges in maintaining support and care for survivors of violence. This brief compiles key actions that the health sector can undertake within a multi-sectoral response to prevent or mitigate interpersonal violence based on existing WHO guidance.

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Title: Advice on the use of masks for children in the community in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC_Masks-Children-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document, co-published with UNICEF, provides guidance to decision-makers, the public, and child health professionals to inform policy on the use of masks for children in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does not address the use of masks for adults working with children or parents/guardians or the use of masks for children in healthcare settings.

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Title: Advice on the use of masks in the community, during home care and in healthcare settings in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-community-during-home-care-and-in-healthcare-settings-in-the-context-of-the-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)-outbreak

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in healthcare settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19. It is intended for individuals in the community, public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, health care managers, health care workers (HCWs), and community health workers. This updated version includes a section on advice to decision-makers on the use of masks for healthy people in community settings.

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Title: Advice on the use of point-of-care immunodiagnostic tests for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/advice-on-the-use-of-point-of-care-immunodiagnostic-tests-for-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic and shortages of laboratory-based molecular testing capacity and reagents, multiple diagnostic test manufacturers have developed and begun selling rapid and easy-to-use devices to facilitate testing outside of laboratory settings. At present, based on current evidence, the World Health Organization recommends the use of these new point-of-care immunodiagnostic tests only in research settings. They should not be used in any other setting, including for clinical decision-making, until evidence supporting use for specific indications is available.

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Title: An international randomised trial of candidate vaccines against COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/an-international-randomised-trial-of-candidate-vaccines-against-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document describes a large, international, randomized controlled clinical trial that is designed to enable an expeditious, agile, and concurrent evaluation of the benefits and risks of multiple candidate preventive vaccines against COVID-19 at international sites with sufficient COVID-19 attack rates.

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Title: Antigen-detection in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/antigen-detection-in-the-diagnosis-of-sars-cov-2infection-using-rapid-immunoassays

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Acknowledging the inadequacy of current data on the performance and operational utility of tests using a lateral flow immunoassay (also called an RDT) that gives results in less than 30 minutes, this nine-page document seeks to provide guidance to countries on considerations for integration into COVID-19 outbreak management programs.

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Title: Assessment of risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in health workers: protocol for a case-control study

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/assessment-of-risk-factors-for-coronavirus-disease-2019-(covid-19)-in-health-workers-protocol-for-a-case-control-study

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is a protocol for a nested case-control study of health workers exposed to confirmed COVID-19 patients. The primary objective of this case-control study among health workers is to characterize and assess the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers exposed to COVID-19 patients.

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Title: Assessment tool for laboratories implementing COVID-19 virus testing: Interim Guidance

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/assessment-tool-for-laboratories-implementing-covid-19-virus-testing

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This tool, updated on October 23, 2020, has been designed to assess the capacity of laboratories that have implemented or intend to implement testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The tool is a shortened version of the 2012 laboratory assessment tool that is widely used to assess national laboratory systems and the capacity of laboratories.

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Title: Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus

URL: http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/influenza_h7n9/en/

Collection: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus web archive

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Title: Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/bacille-calmette-gu%C3%A9rin-(bcg)-vaccination-and-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report describes why, in the absence of evidence, the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination for the prevention of COVID-19. WHO continues to recommend neonatal BCG vaccination in countries or settings with a high incidence of tuberculosis.

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Title: Breastfeeding and COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Sci_Brief-Breastfeeding-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This scientific brief examines the evidence to date on the risks of transmission of COVID-19 from an infected mother to her baby through breastfeeding, as well as evidence on the risks to child health from not breastfeeding, and several recommendations.

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Title: Briefing notes on Zika and Microcephaly - World | ReliefWeb

URL: http://reliefweb.int/report/world/briefing-notes-zika-and-microcephaly/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Briefing notes on Zika and Microcephaly," by the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Relief Web website on January 19, 2016. The report provides an update on the Zika virus outbreak, evidence for the virus' possible relationship to microcephaly, background on the virus, prevention and treatment, and the WHO response.

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Title: COVID-19 / "Science in 5" series - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9S6xGsoqIBXRQzSDOfFb13iPrbL8fgy1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Playlist, "COVID-19/"Science in 5" series".

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Title: COVID-19 Early Epidemiologic and Clinical Investigations for Public Health Response

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/200218-early-investigations-one-pager-v1-eng.pdf?sfvrsn=8aa0856_2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document provides information about several early investigation master protocols or master forms for early investigations of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It provides a table about these early investigation master protocols or master forms, with information about which early investigations; for whom; why; and a generic email address to contact.

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Title: COVID-19 IHR Emergency Committee

URL: https://www.who.int/groups/covid-19-ihr-emergency-committee/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) Global Research and Innovation Forum: Towards a Research Roadmap

URL: https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/Global_Research_Forum_FINAL_VERSION_for_web_14_feb_2020.pdf?ua=1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page report summarizes a meeting of world experts on COVID-19 held on February 11-12, 2020, to assess the current level of knowledge about the coronavirus, agree on critical research questions that need to be answered urgently, and find ways to work together to accelerate and fund priority research that can contribute to curtail this outbreak and prepare for future outbreaks. The report details eight immediate research actions were agreed upon as part of this forum.

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Title: COVID-19 SMS message library

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/covid-19-message-library

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This message library of COVID-19 information is intended to be locally adapted and delivered to the general public in countries around the world via SMS (text message) or voice message. Member States are encouraged to localize and translate the messages as necessary.

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Title: COVID-19 Target product profiles for priority diagnostics to support response to the COVID-19 pandemic v.1.0

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-target-product-profiles-for-priority-diagnostics-to-support-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-v.0.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The World Health Organization has published this 38-page final version of Target Product Profiles (TPP), updated on September 28, 2020, for priority COVID-19 diagnostics. These TPPs describe the desirable and minimally acceptable profiles for four tests.

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Title: COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for Food Businesses

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/covid-19-and-food-safety-guidance-for-food-businesses

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: There is now an urgent requirement for the food industry to ensure compliance with measures to protect food workers from contracting COVID-19, to prevent exposure to or transmission of the virus, and to strengthen food hygiene and sanitation practices. The purpose of the guidelines in this document is to highlight these additional measures so that the integrity of the food chain is maintained, and that adequate and safe food supplies are available for consumers.

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Title: COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for competent authorities responsible for national food safety control systems - Interim Guidance

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331842/WHO-2019-nCoV-Food_Safety_authorities-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: COVID-19 and the measures taken to mitigate the global impact of the pandemic have disrupted food production and food supply chains worldwide. This five-page guidance document, written with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, provides advice and recommendations for national food safety authorities to optimize food control functions and prioritize critical services that preserve the integrity of food safety systems.

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Title: COVID-19 and the use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and receptor blockers

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/covid-19-and-the-use-of-angiotensin-converting-enzyme-inhibitors-and-receptor-blockers

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This brief summarizes the current evidence on the impact of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) or angiotensin receptor blockers on severe acute respiratory illness due to SARS CoV-2. It addresses concerns that ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) increase susceptibility to coronavirus SARS CoV-2 (the viral agent that causes the disease COVID-19) and the likelihood of severe COVID-19 illness.

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Title: COVID-19 and violence against women: what the health sector/system can do, 7 April 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331699

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document discusses how COVID-19 can exacerbate risks of violence for women. It details the important role that health systems have in ensuring that services for women who have experienced violence remain accessible during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what can be done to address violence against women during the COVID-19 response.

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Title: COVID-19 disrupting mental health services in most countries, WHO survey

URL: https://www.who.int/news/item/05-10-2020-covid-19-disrupting-mental-health-services-in-most-countries-who-survey

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 essential supplies forecasting tool overview of the structure, methodology, and assumptions used: interim guidance, 25 August 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333983

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides technical details and methodological explanations on the structure of the COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT). It is intended to provide information that will allow users to a) trace and understand the calculations, assumptions, and limitations of ESFT; and b) modify these assumptions for different contexts or use cases.

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Title: COVID-19 pandemic response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, progress report of the incident management support team, January-July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334319

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 68-page report summarizes a six-month review of the Incident Management Support Team (IMST) response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. A theme running throughout is the IMST's role in coordination of the COVID-19 response, particularly in bringing together regional partners and driving forward the operational response.

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Title: COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plan: strengthening the collective response and accelerating readiness in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: July 2020 edition

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333943

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 34-page document has been developed by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean to establish a regional plan of action to support countries in rapidly scaling up capacities for prevention, early detection, and response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The plan summarizes the main public health measures that WHO will support and prioritize in order to facilitate an effective response in countries.

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Title: COVID-19 technology access pool

URL: https://www.who.int/initiatives/covid-19-technology-access-pool

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website from World Health Organization regarding COVID-19 technology access pool, links to news and press releases and videos and publications

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Title: COVID-19 vaccine tracker and landscape

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides details about over two dozen COVID-19 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation. Inclusion of any particular product or entity in any of these landscape documents does not constitute, and shall not be deemed or construed as, any approval or endorsement by WHO of such product or entity (or any of its businesses or activities).

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Title: COVID-19: Occupational health and safety for health workers: interim guidance, 2 February 2021

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-outbreak-rights-roles-and-responsibilities-of-health-workers-including-key-considerations-for-occupational-safety-and-health

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines and COVID-19 Partners

URL: https://openwho.org/courses/UNCT-COVID19-preparedness-and-response-EN

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-module learning package introduces the context for the need for a coordinated global response plan to the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) outbreak. Key objectives for participants are to be able to educate themselves and others about the importance of operationalizing the Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for the COVID-19 outbreak using the Operational Planning Guidelines; describe the eight major pillars of public health preparedness and response and initial actions to be taken by the United Nations country teams; and access the full set of actions, performance indicators, and resources needed to conduct the preparedness level assessment using the COVID-19 Partners Platform for country preparedness and response plans.

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Title: Calibrating long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 : principles and facilitation tools

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332099

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 31-page document discusses how countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region have implemented strict non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), aiming to interrupt or reduce transmission. Some of these measures have significant socioeconomic costs and may negatively impact the physical and emotional well-being of populations. The document proposes guiding principles and five steps for countries to implement an NPI strategy that balances epidemiological benefit and socioeconomic costs.

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Title: Caring for women subjected to violence: a WHO curriculum for training health-care providers, revised edition, 2021

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240039803/

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: Case Report Form for suspected cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-MIS_Children_CRF-2020.2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This form is to be completed for all children aged 0-19 suspected to have multisystem inflammatory disorder temporally related to COVID-19 (even if all criteria in the case definition are not met - to capture full spectrum of the condition).

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Title: Children’s story book released to help children and young people cope with COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/09-04-2020-children-s-story-book-released-to-help-children-and-young-people-cope-with-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 15 May 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332096

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19. Environmental surfaces are more likely to be contaminated with the COVID-19 virus in healthcare settings where certain medical procedures are performed. This advice also applies to alternative settings for isolation of persons with COVID-19 experiencing uncomplicated and mild illness, including households and non-traditional facilities.

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Title: Clinical care for severe acute respiratory infection: toolkit: COVID-19 adaptation

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331736

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 196-page toolkit is intended for clinicians working in intensive care units in low- and middle-income countries, managing adult and pediatric patients with severe forms of acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and septic shock. It is a hands-on practical guide to be used by healthcare professionals involved in critical care management during the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of influenza (seasonal or avian influenza), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), or other emerging respiratory viral epidemics.

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Title: Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: General considerations

URL: https://openwho.org/courses/clinical-management-COVID-19-general-considerations

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website from World Health Organization regarding clinical management of patients with COVID-19, this page is about a course offered with information listed about the course.

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Title: Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Comm_health_care-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance, published with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and UNICEF, addresses the specific role of community-based health care in the COVID-19 pandemic context and outlines the adaptations needed to keep people safe, maintain continuity of essential services, and ensure an effective response to COVID-19. It is intended for decision-makers and managers at the national and subnational levels and complements a range of other guidance, including that on priority public health interventions, facility-based care, and risk communication and community engagement in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Considerations for implementing and adjusting public health and social measures in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/considerations-in-adjusting-public-health-and-social-measures-in-the-context-of-covid-19-interim-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is intended for national authorities and decision-makers in countries that have introduced large-scale public health and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and are considering adjusting them. It offers guidance for adjusting public health and social measures, while managing the risk of resurgence of cases.

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Title: Considerations for implementing mass treatment, active case-finding and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim guidance, 27 July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333499

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document outlines a decision-making framework for implementation of mass treatment interventions, active case-finding campaigns, and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It formulates considerations aimed at providing guidance to relevant health authorities, NTD program managers, and their supporting partners.

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Title: Considerations for quarantine of contacts of COVID-19 cases: interim guidance, 19 August 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333901

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is an update of COVID-19 interim guidance published on March 19, 2020. It provides updated guidance for the implementation of quarantine, as well as additional guidance on ventilation and on the care of children in quarantine.

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Title: Considerations for school-related public health measures in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/considerations-for-school-related-public-health-measures-in-the-context-of-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page document, updated on September 14, 2020, provides considerations for decision-makers and educators on how or when to reopen or close schools in the context of COVID-19. These decisions have important implications for children, parents or caregivers, teachers, and other staff, communities, and society at large.

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Title: Considerations for the provision of essential oral health services in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-2019-nCoV-oral-health-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this document is to address specific needs and considerations for essential oral health services in the context of COVID-19 in accordance with WHO operational guidance on maintaining essential health services.

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Title: Considerations in the investigation of cases and clusters of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/considerations-in-the-investigation-of-cases-and-clusters-of-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document, updated on October 22, 2020, offers operational guidance to Member States for the rapid investigation of suspected COVID-19 cases after an alert or signal. It is to be used by local, regional, or national health authorities as considerations for investigating cases of COVID-19. A table serves as operational guidance for time-sensitive (within first few days of notification) priority actions after the signal of a COVID-19 case/cluster.

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Title: Coordinated Global Research Roadmap: 2019 Novel Coronavirus

URL: https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/Coronavirus_Roadmap_V9.pdf?ua=1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Training: Simulation Exercise

URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/training/simulation-exercise

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: To support countries' preparedness effort on the COVID-19 outbreak, WHO`s Department of Health Security and Preparedness has developed various COVID-19 tabletop exercise (SimEx) packages, including a generic COVID 19 SimEx, a Health Facility and Infection Prevention and Control SimEx, and a Point of Entry (POE) SimEx. The packages include the exercises, participant and facilitator guides, and participant feedback forms. They are available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.

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Title: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides answers to questions about ventilation in the context of COVID-19, including what steps can be undertaken to improve the ventilation in indoor public spaces and buildings.

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Title: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Mass gatherings

URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-mass-gatherings

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page, updated on April 14, 2020, answers frequently asked questions about COVID-19 and mass gatherings. Topics include how large a meeting or event needs to be in order to be a "mass gathering;" factors organizers and health authorities should look at when assessing whether the risks are acceptable or not; and where to find more advice about mass gatherings and health risks.

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Title: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Violence against women

URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-violence-against-women

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides answers to 13 questions about violence against women during COVID-19. Topics include: How does COVID-19 increase risks of violence for women?; Home is not a safe place for me - what can I do?; and I am a healthcare worker/policymaker - what can I do to prevent and address violence against women during COVID-19?.

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Title: Corticosteroids for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Corticosteroids-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Corticosteroids have received worldwide attention as a potentially effective treatment for COVID-19. This guideline reflects an innovation from the World Health Organization, driven by an urgent need for global collaboration to provide trustworthy and living COVID-19 guidance informing policy and practice worldwide during an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, such as this pandemic.

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Title: COVAX

URL: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website from World Health Organization (WHO) regarding COVAX, COVID-19 vaccines

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Title: Criteria for releasing COVID-19 patients from isolation

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/criteria-for-releasing-covid-19-patients-from-isolation

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This scientific brief provides the rationale for the changes made to the clinical management of COVID-19 guidance and recommendations on the criteria for discharging patients from isolation, based on recent scientific evidence. WHO will update these criteria as more information becomes available.

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Title: Critical preparedness, readiness and response actions for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/critical-preparedness-readiness-and-response-actions-for-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance document provides updated recommendations in the table of critical preparedness, readiness, and response actions for each transmission scenario for COVID-19, and provides an update to the full list of WHO technical guidance available for COVID-19. All countries should increase their level of preparedness, alert, and response to identify, manage, and care for new cases of COVID-19.

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Title: Diagnostics Allocations Frequently Asked Questions

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/diagnostics-allocations-frequently-asked-questions

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page fact sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 diagnostic supply allocations, including how the allocation principles are developed.

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Title: Diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine readiness, and other health products for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_assessment-Products-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 28-page tool has been designed to assess present and surge capacities for the treatment of COVID-19 in health facilities, with a focus on the availability of diagnostics, therapeutics and other health products, vaccine readiness, availability of beds, and space capacities. This tool forms part of a wider suite of health service capacity assessment tools, the harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Disease Outbreak News (DONs)

URL: http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

Collection: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus web archive

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Title: Disease commodity package - Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/disease-commodity-package---novel-coronavirus-(ncov)

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/17-07-2019-ebola-outbreak-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-declared-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Press release titled, "Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern," published on the World Health Organization (WHO) website on July 17, 2019. It reports on the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's announcement that the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Congo is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

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Title: Ebola virus disease

URL: https://www.who.int/ebola/en/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Page on the World Health Organization (WHO) website dedicated to information on the Ebola virus disease (EVD).

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Title: Ebola virus disease

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ebola-virus-disease/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Page on the World Health Organization (WHO) website dedicated to key facts on the Ebola virus disease (EVD). Topics include transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, vaccines, prevention and control, among others.

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Title: Efficacy of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia - based on information as at 12 June 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332935

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page rapid policy brief aims to summarize relevant research about the use of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, facilitating the findings' use in decision-making. It summarizes search and research methods, and policy findings.

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Title: Ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff in COVID-19 health-care facilities: a module from the suite of health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_assessment-Safe_environment-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 49-page tool has been designed to assess the structural capacities of hospitals to allow safe COVID-19 case management, maintain the delivery of essential services, and enable surge capacity planning. This tool forms part of a wider suite of health service capacity assessment tools, the harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Estimating mortality from COVID-19: Scientific brief, 4 August 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Sci-Brief-Mortality-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Differences in mortality between groups of people and countries are important proxy indicators of relative risk of death that guide policy decisions regarding scarce medical resource allocation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page document is intended to help countries estimate case fatality ratio (CFR), and, if possible, infection fatality ratio (IFR), as appropriately and accurately as possible, while accounting for possible biases in their estimation.

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Title: Ethical considerations to guide the use of digital proximity tracking technologies for COVID-19 contact tracing

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Ethics_Contact_tracing_apps-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Digital proximity tracking technologies have been identified as a potential tool to support contact tracing for COVID-19. However, these technologies raise ethical and privacy concerns. This document is intended to provide policymakers and other stakeholders with guidance as to the ethical and appropriate use of digital proximity tracking technologies for COVID-19.

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Title: Ethics

URL: https://www.who.int/ethics/en/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Section titled, "Global Health Ethics," on the World Health Organization (WHO) website. The section links to pages on ethics and health, issues and global health, the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee (ERC), publications, the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Bioethics, the Global Summit of National Bioethics Committees, media, and the ethics platform.

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Title: Ethics and COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/teams/health-ethics-governance/diseases/covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Ethics and COVID-19: resource allocation and priority-setting

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/ethics-covid-19-resource-allocation.pdf?sfvrsn=13dbf27f_2&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This policy brief answers a number of questions about the ethics of setting priorities for the allocation of resources during times of scarcity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such decisions may include access to hospitals, ventilators, vaccines, and medicines. The document provides a high-level ethical framework that can be used to guide decision-making, and complements WHO's technical guidance.

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Title: Excessive screen use and gaming considerations during COVID19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333467

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document discusses the health risks of excessive screen time or gaming to cope with the stressful COVID-19 situation or to pass time when in isolation, quarantine, or lockdown. It provides recommendations for parents, school authorities, and health and social care providers.

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Title: Experts and gamers join forces to fight COVID-19 via Plague Inc: The Cure game - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTuGH7CNm-k

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Exploration of COVID-19 health-care worker cases : implications for action

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333945

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page guidance describes a system to detect healthcare worker COVID-19 cases, investigate avenues of infections, and guide appropriate responses at the facility and public health levels based on the investigation findings. It is intended for national and sub-national public health authorities and healthcare facility managers.

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Title: Fair allocation mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/fair-allocation-mechanism-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-the-covax-facility

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 17-page document describes the WHO Secretariat's proposal for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines among countries (not within countries), specifically in the context of the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility access mechanism and developed in collaboration with the ACT-Accelerator vaccine partners.

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Title: Final Statement on the 8th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005)

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/26-06-2020-final-statement-on-the-8th-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Final Statement on the 8th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005)

URL: https://www.who.int/news/item/26-06-2020-final-statement-on-the-8th-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: First Few X (FFX) Cases and Contact Investigation Protocol for 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection, Version 2

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/20200129-generic-ffx-protocol-2019-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=595eb313_2&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 65-page protocol has been designed to investigate the First Few X (FFX) cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and their close contacts. It is envisioned that the FFX 2019-nCoV investigation will be conducted across several countries or sites with geographical and demographic diversity. Using a standardized protocol such as the protocol provided here, epidemiological exposure data and biological samples can be systematically collected and shared rapidly in a format that can be easily aggregated, tabulated, and analyzed across many different settings globally for timely estimates of 2019-nCoV infection severity and transmissibility, as well as to inform public health responses and policy decisions.

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Title: Five things you need to know about MERS - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0R4LvLI17k

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Focus on immunization and surveillance in the mid-term evaluation of polio transition

URL: https://www.who.int/news/item/03-11-2022-focus-on-immunization-and-surveillance-in-the-in-mid-term-evaluation-of-polio-transition

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Framework for decision-making: implementation of mass vaccination campaigns in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Framework_Mass_Vaccination-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this eight-page document outlines a common framework for decision-making for the conduct of preventive and outbreak response campaigns; offers principles to consider when deliberating the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns for prevention of increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and high impact diseases (VPD/HID) among susceptible populations; and details the risks and benefits of conducting vaccination campaigns to respond to VPD/HID outbreaks.

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Title: Framework for decision-making: implementation of mass vaccination campaigns in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 22 May 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332159

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document outlines a common framework for decision-making for the conduct of preventive and outbreak response campaigns in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; and offers principles to consider when deliberating the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns for prevention of increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and high-impact diseases among susceptible populations.

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Title: Frequently Asked Questions on human infection caused by the avian influenza A(H7N9) virus

URL: http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/faq_H7N9/en/

Collection: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus web archive

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Title: Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document describes how businesses and employers can play a role in stopping the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). It lists simple ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace; things to consider when employers and employees travel; and getting a business ready in case COVID-19 arrives in the community.

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Title: Global Alert and Response (GAR)

URL: http://www.who.int/csr/en/

Collection: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus web archive

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Title: Global COVID-19 Clinical Platform: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Rapid Version

URL: https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2020/04/ISARIC_COVID-19_RAPID_CRF_24MAR20_EN.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page case report form for COVID-19 is intended to provide member states with a standardized approach to collect clinical data in order to better understand the natural history of disease. It has three modules to be used for the first day of admission to the health center, the first day of admission to ICU or high dependency unit, and upon discharge or death.

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Title: Global COVID-19: clinical platform: novel coronavius (‎COVID-19)‎: rapid version, 8 April 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331768

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Global Influenza Programme

URL: http://www.who.int/influenza/

Collection: Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus web archive

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Title: Global Surveillance for COVID-19 Disease Caused by Human Infection with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1272502/retrieve

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Page on the World Health Organization (WHO) website titled "Global research on coronavirus (COVID-19)" providing a database of research and websites related to COVID-19.

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Title: Good participatory practices for COVID-19 research and response - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SGiIxNUq8

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools | HumanitarianResponse

URL: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/iraq/document/schoolguidancecovid19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance for laboratories shipping specimens to WHO reference laboratories that provide confirmatory testing for COVID-19 virus: interim guidance, 31 March 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331639

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In order to expedite the shipment of clinical samples from patients with suspected COVID-19 virus infection from the country of collection to one of the World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratories providing confirmatory testing for COVID-19, a shipment mechanism has been established. This two-page document, updated on March 31, 2020, provides detailed instructions for shipping.

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Title: Guidance for the use of the WHO mass gathering risk assessment tools

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665-333187

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This risk assessment spreadsheet tool for sports events has been updated to reflect new WHO guidance and new evidence on both COVID-19 and mass gatherings, as well as feedback from end-users. The Decision Tree is now built into the tool, and a new tab dedicated to Risk Communication has been added. The expanded tool now includes six tabs: 1. Instructions; 2. Decision Tree; 3. Risk Evaluation; 4. Risk Mitigation; 5. Decision Matrix; and 6. Risk Communication.

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Title: Guidance on maintaining a safe and adequate blood supply during the coronavirus disease 2019 (‎COVID-19)‎ pandemic and on the collection of COVID-19 convalescent plasma: interim guidance, 10 July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333182

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides interim guidance on the management of the blood supply in response to the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including recommendations on collection of COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

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Title: Health Security Learning Platform: All courses

URL: https://extranet.who.int/hslp/training/course/index.php?categoryid=56

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This course on COVID-19 at points of entry has five modules. Modules include: management of ill travelers, managing outbreaks and cases on ships and aviation, controlling spread at ground crossings, response to COVID-19 on cargo ships and fishing vessels

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