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- From emergency response to long-term COVID-19 disease management - Ending the COVID-19 emergency and transitioning from emergency phase to longer-term disease management: Guidance on calibrating the r (2023)
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- Revised case report form for confirmed Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (report to WHO within 48 hours of case identification) (2022)
- Use of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 self-testing (2022)
- Эпидемиологический надзор за COVID-19: временные рекомендации, 14 февраля 2022 г. (2022)
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Orientações provisórias
20 de Março de 2020
The following protocol has been designed to investigate the extent of infection, as determined by seropositivity in the general population, in any country in which COVID-19 virus infection has been reported. Each country may need to tailor some aspects of this protocol to align with public health, l...
Contact tracing may help limit COVID-19 transmission when the first cases are identified within a country but can be very resource intensive.
It is likely not to be feasible when community transmission is occurring and cases outside known transmission chains increase greatly.
This technical note describes medical certification of cause of death and classification (International Classification of Diseases [ICD] mortality coding) of deaths related to COVID-19. The primary goal is to identify all deaths due to COVID-19 in all countries, including those not yet following WHO...
Our previous articles, Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, The Hammer and the Dance, and Out of Many, One have gathered over 60 million views together and have been translated into over 40 languages. This installment is part 3 (part 1 and part 2) of our 4th article, Learning How to Dance, a series th...
Orientations provisoires
26 mars 2020
Plusieurs pays ont montré qu’il était possible de ralentir voire de stopper la transmission interpersonnelle de la COVID-19. Les principales mesures pour arrêter la transmission sont le dépistage actif des cas, les soins et l’isolement, la recherche...
Orientations provisoires
20 mars 2020
Ce document résume les orientations actuelles de l'OMS pour la surveillance mondiale de la COVID-19 chez l'homme, due à une infection par le nouveau coronavirus 2019. Ces orientations sont à lire en se référant aux orientations de l'OMS sur les activit...
March 2020
The number of African Union Member States reporting COVID-
19 cases is increasing and there is a likelihood of community transmission. The WHO recently modified the COVID-19 suspect case definition to include severe acute respiratory infection and advises testing of all severe acute res...
March 2020
The number of African Union Member States reporting COVID-
19 cases is increasing and there is a likelihood of community transmission. The WHO recently modified the COVID-19 suspect case definition to include severe acute respiratory infection and advises testing of all severe acute r...
Março de 2020
O número de Estados Membros da União Africana a reportarem
casos do COVID-19 está a aumentar e existe uma probabilidade de transmissão comunitária. A OMS modificou recentemente a definição
de caso suspeito do COVID-19, de modo a incluir infecção respiratória aguda grave...
Centre Africain de contrôle et de prévention des maladies (CDC Afrique) protocole par la surveillance renforcée du syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (SRAS) et du syndrome grippal pour COVID-19 en Afrique
Mars 2020
Le nombre d’États membres de l’Union signalant des cas de COVID-19 est ...
Este documento resume as orientações provisórias da OMS para a vigilância global de novas infecções pelo coronavírus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19). A OMS continuará atualizando essas orientações à medida que novas informações sobre 2019-nCoV estiverem disponíveis. Este documento fornece orienta...
O protocolo a seguir foi desenvolvido para investigar o alcance da infecção, conforme determinado pela soropositividade da população geral, em qualquer país com casos confirmados de infecção pelo COVID-19. Os países talvez tenham que adaptar alguns aspectos deste protocolo para os respectivo...
Contact tracing is a core public health response to COVID-19.Other measures include active case finding or physical distancing. In order to trace a contact, we first need to define what a ‘contact’ is.
This document aims to help EU/EEA public health authorities in the tracing and management of persons, including healthcare workers, who had contact with COVID-19 cases. It outlines the key steps of contact tracing, including contact identification, listing and follow-up, in the context of the COVID-...
This document offers guidance to Member States in the African region on the key steps used to conduct contact tracing related to the COVID-19 response. It is to be used by national and local health authorities in the implementation of tracing of contacts of probable and confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Effective response to an outbreak of COVID-19 requires detection in the very earliest stages of the outbreak when the number of cases is small, and the geographical extent of spread is limited. In order to achieve this, a sensitive surveillance system capable of detecting small scale, unusual events...
