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Epidemiological Update: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) (28 February 2020)
Global Situation Summary: Since the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) epidemiological update on novel coronavirus published on 14 February 2020 – and as of 28 February 2020, an additional ... -
Epidemiological Alert: Novel coronavirus (nCoV) (16 January 2020)
On 31 December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, reported a conglomerate of 27 cases of acute respiratory syndrome of unknown etiology among people linked to a wet ... -
Epidemiological Update: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) (14 February 2020)
On 21 January 2020, the first case of COVID-19 imported into the region of the Americas was identified in the United States of America in the state of Washington. A few days later, on 25 January, Canada reported their first ... -
Epidemiological Update: Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (20 January 2020)
Since the Epidemiological Alert on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) published on January 16, 2020 and until January 20, 2020 four countries have reported to the World Organization Health (WHO) confirmed cases: China (198 ... -
Epidemiological Update: Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (5 February 2020)
On 31 December 2019, Wuhan Municipality in Hubei Province, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases with unknown etiology. By the 9th of January 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention identified a ... -
Laboratory Guidelines for Detection and Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection, February 01, 2020
(2020-02-01)Coronaviruses are a group of highly diverse RNA virus in the Coronaviridae family that are divided in 4 genera: alpha, beta, gamma and delta that cause disease varying from mild to severe in human and animals. There are ... -
Ethics guidance on key issues raised by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, 16 March 2020
(2020-03-18)Health authorities are tasked with protecting the health of the population and responding to public health emergencies. An adequate health response to public health emergencies, such as the current WHO-declared COVID-19 ... -
Interim laboratory biosafety guidelines for the handling and transport of samples associated with the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), 28 January 2020
(2020-01-28)In January 2020, the etiologic agent responsible for a cluster of severe pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, was identified as a novel beta-coronavirus (2019-nCoV), distinct than SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV (1) (2) (3). The complete ... -
Prehospital Emergency Medical System Readiness Checklist for COVID-19
(2020-03-02)Introduction:Pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) facilitate initial initiate care through basic life support (BLS) and/or advanced life support (ALS) and the transfer of injured or sick patients from the site of ... -
Hospital Readiness Checklist for COVID-19, Interim Document - Version 5. 10 February 2020
(2020-02-10)The purpose of this tool is to help countries verify readiness for COVID-19 in designated hospitals, identifying immediate, high-priority actions for mounting an efficient and timely response to the emergency. This tool ...