Browsing Resources in English by Author "European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control"
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Contact tracing for COVID-19: current evidence, options for scale-up and an assessment of resources needed
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020-05-05)Contact tracing is an effective public health measure for the control of COVID-19. The prompt identification and management of the contacts of COVID-19 cases makes it possible to rapidly identify secondary cases that may ... -
COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission - first update
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020)The aim of this document is to provide an update on the knowledge surrounding the role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the role of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the experience in the EU from ... -
COVID-19 testing strategies and objectives
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020)This document outlines strategies and objectives for sustainable SARS-CoV-2 testing of populations to achieve specific public health objectives in various epidemiological situations. General population-wide testing, as ... -
Epidemiological update: Complications potentially linked to the Zika virus outbreak, Brazil and French Polynesia - 27 November 2015
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016)The original source for this document may be restricted, preventing outside readers from accessing the content, or may no longer be available. Therefore, users need to use other resources to retrieve this information. -
Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings – first update
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020-08-21)This document provides an overview of major aspects of testing, contact tracing, contact identification and contact follow-up in school settings within the EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom (UK). -
Public health management of persons, including health care workers, having had contact with COVID-19 cases in the European Union - first update
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020-02-25)This document aims to provide guidance for EU/EEA public health authorities on the management of persons, including healthcare workers, who had contact with COVID-19 cases. A contact of a COVID-19 case is a person not ... -
Threat Assessment Brief: Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: considerations for public health response
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2020)Cases with suspected or possible reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 have been recently reported in different countries. In many of these cases, it is uncertain if the individual’s Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test remained ...