Country & Technical Guidance - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

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Strengthening Preparedness for COVID-19 in Cities and Urban Settings

This document is to support local authorities, leaders and policy-makers in cities and other urban settlements in identifying effective approaches and...

Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response

This document brings to attention key health and human rights considerations with regards to COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the importance of integrating...

This large, international, randomized controlled clinical trial is designed to enable an expeditious, agile and concurrent evaluation of the benefits and...

Preparedness, prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for refugees and migrants in non-camp settings

Refugees and migrants face similar health threats from COVID-19 as their host populations. However, inadequate access to essential services and exclusion...

Assessment tool for laboratories implementing COVID-19 virus testing

This tool has been designed to assess the capacity of laboratories that have implemented or intend to implement testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that...

Practical considerations and recommendations for religious leaders and faith-based communities in the context of COVID-19

This document and risk assessment tool  provides practical guidance and recommendations to support the special role of religious leaders, faith-based...

This document summarizes WHO’s recommendations for the rational use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care and home care settings,...

This document provides advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in health care settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19....

Oxygen sources and distribution for COVID-19 treatment centres

This interim guidance on oxygen sources and distribution strategies for COVID-19 treatment has been adapted from WHO and UNICEF’s technical specifications...

Recommendations to Member States to improve hand hygiene practices to help prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus

WHO recommends member states provide universal access to public hand hygiene stations and making their use obligatory on entering and leaving any public...

Currently, there are no licensed vaccines for the prevention of COVID 19. While efforts continue to develop effective vaccines, it is pertinent to examine...

Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19:implications for IPC precaution recommendations

This version updates the 27 March publication by providing definitions of droplets by particle size and adding three relevant publications.

Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre

This is the first edition of the practical manual to set up and manage a severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) treatment centre and a SARI screening...

COVID-19: Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak

When health systems are overwhelmed, both direct mortality from an outbreak and indirect mortality from vaccine-preventable and treatable conditions increase...

Handbook for public health capacity-building at ground crossings and cross-border collaboration

This handbook follows a comprehensive approach to health system strengthening at borders in order to support IHR national focal points and other national...

Operational considerations for managing COVID-19 cases/outbreak on board ships

This document has been prepared based on the evidence currently available about Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission (human-to-human transmission...