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	Contact tracing and quarantine in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 6 July 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(34) Download (27) Add to my MEDBOX Contact tracing for COVID-19 is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to someone who has been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while quarantine is the separation of contacts from other people after exposure to a probable or confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the context of growing global population immunity from COVID-19 vaccination and past SARS-CoV-2 infection, WHO recommends that identification, contact, quarantine and follow-up should be prioritized for individuals at high risk who have been in contact with a confirmed or probable case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, rather than targeting all contacts. This updated guidance also introduces shorter recommended quarantine periods, including the ability to further shorten quarantine through the use of testing. National and local health authorities should use risk-based approaches to contact tracing and quarantine that include reviewing and adjusting to their local circumstances and disease epidemiology, population immunity, their health system’s capacities, and risk tolerance Tags: COVID-19, Contact Tracing, Public health, Outbreak Control, Quarantine, omicron, Surveillance, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Special Focus: Update on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Variants of Concern World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(70) Download (38) Add to my MEDBOX Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19, 28 September 2022 Tags: covax, Vaccines, COVID-19, Supply, Access, variants, virus variants, mutation, Brazil, South Africa, Great Britain, Delta, Beta, Gamma, omicron, Vaccination, Source: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/
	Update 80: What we know about new COVID-19 Variants of Concern - the latest on the global situation & Omicron BA.4/5 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(14) Download (10) Add to my MEDBOX While COVID-19 virus continues to circulate and evolve, new variants are constantly emerging. Most of the current COVID-19 cases are driven by the circulation of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron. The COVID-19 vaccines are being updated with Omicron variants to provide broader immunity against circulating and emerging variants Tags: variant, SARS-CoV-2, omicron, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	Covid-19 Test to Treat Guidelines African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) C1 View PDF(11) Download (4) Add to my MEDBOX n response to the outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has been supporting African Union Member States in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic through a variety of interventions such as non-pharmaceutical interventions, quarantine, testing, isolation, contact tracing, and clinical management. The Test to Treat guideline aims to increase continental testing efforts and reduce COVID-19 transmission in Africa and put-up response measures to control the impact of the virus, both to limit spread and to reduce substantially the risks of severe health outcomes related to COVID-19 infection. These countermeasures include highly effective vaccines and boosters, rapid testing options for monitoring exposure, and effective therapeutic options for both pre-exposure prevention and treatment of mild-to-moderate disease, oxygen therapy for moderate-severe disease, all of which can potentially be updated efficiently as new variants emerge that may affect the effectiveness of the available tools Tags: Testing, Outbreak Control, outbreak managment, Prevention, Guidelines, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-
	The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic Sachs, J., Karim, S., Aknin, L. et al. The Lancet Commissions (2022) CC Open external link (108) Add to my MEDBOX This Commission report aims to contribute to a new era of multilateral cooperation based on strong UN institutions to reduce the dangers of COVID-19, forestall the next pandemic, and enable the world to achieve the agreed goals of sustainable development, human rights, and peace that governments are committed to pursue as members of the UN. We address this Commission report to the UN member states, the UN agencies and multilateral institutions, and multilateral processes such as the G20 and the G7 Tags: COVID-19, Lessons learned, future, pandemic, governance, global health governance, UN, sustainable development, multilateral, outbreak, airborne infections, airborne precautions, biosafety, laboratory biosafety, Source: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf
	Revised COVID-19 Testing Strategy African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) CC View PDF(19) Download (17) Add to my MEDBOX Second edition. June 2022. This revised guidance recommends that access to COVID-19 testing is decentralized as far as possible and made available at health facilities, and through the use of self tests to enable access to care and the mitigation of transmission. Testing should be prioritized for high-risk and vulnerable individuals presenting with acute onset of respiratory illness so that those found to be infected can benefit from clinical care and access to COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccine Tags: Testing, Surveillance, outbreak prevention, outbreak managment, Prevention, transmission, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/revised-c
	The future of WHO Covid-19 response operations in Africa in 2022 World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO View PDF(28) Download (35) Add to my MEDBOX The African Region has been experiencing unprecedented health challenges due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which have compounded the already difficult task the Region was facing in moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) attainment Tags: COVID-19, strategy, Africa, response plan, Prevention, outbreak managment, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Revised case report form for confirmed Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (‎‎‎report to WHO within 48 hours of case identification)‎‎‎ World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(17) Download (9) Add to my MEDBOX 22 July 2022 Tags: case report, COVID-19, Surveillance, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Strengthening pandemic preparedness planning for respiratory pathogens: policy brief, 27 April 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(17) Download (9) Add to my MEDBOX This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub-national functional capacities for preparedness. In addition, this policy brief highlights suggested actions for Member States as they initiate or update national and sub-national pandemic preparedness planning process Tags: Respiratory Infections, pandemic, preparedness, Capacity Building, national level, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Preparing for and responding to global health emergencies Cochrane Convenes (2022) C1 View PDF(29) Download (27) Add to my MEDBOX Learnings from the COVID-19 evidence response and recommendations for the future. Reflections and recommendations from the evidence synthesis community. Tags: COVID-19, Lessons learned, preparedness, outbreak response, Source: https://convenes.cochrane.org/sites/conv

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326 records