On January 23, 2020, Wuhan, a Chinese city with over 10 million people, was locked down due to COVID-19. Subsequently, all cities in China instituted the highest level emergency response. The response mandated home isolation, reduced unessential hospital visits, restricted social activities, and the use of personal protection equipment (e.g., face masks) outdoors. We […]
Category: Communicable disease
Public Health Law in times of COVID-19 : perspective from India
About two months after the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, India dived into a 21 day lockdown. For the general public, daily life came to a halt ; but for our health care workers, it was time to suit up for the battle. With the responsibility of the health of 1.3 billion Indians […]
Une première ligne des soins primaires oubliée face à la pandémie du COVID19 : le cas de la ville de Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo
This blog is a part of #COVID19Africa Series. Click for English version La première ligne des soins, ligne de front, assure la fonction de premier contact, de coordination des soins sur la personne, d’interface entre la communauté et le système de santé, de mémoire et synthèse des informations, et de responsabilité sanitaire des populations. Représentée par les […]
COVID-19 puts the health system to test in Bababé, Mauritania
This blog is a part of #COVID19Africa Series. Click for French version Mauritania reported the first cases of COVID-19 on 13 March 2020. To date, the country has 6 confirmed cases: 4 imported cases from Europe, 1 case of community transmission in the capital Nouakchott, 1 imported case from Senegal in Kaédi, a town in Southern […]
Le système de santé de Bababé, Mauritanie, à l’épreuve de COVID 19
This blog is a part of #COVID19Africa Series. Click for English version En Mauritanie, les premiers cas de COVID-19 ont été enregistrés à partir du 13 mars 2020. A ce jour, le pays compte 6 cas confirmés, dont 4 importés d’Europe, 1 cas de transmission communautaire à Nouakchott, la capitale, et 1 cas importé dans la […]
First line response to COVID-19: community health centres and doctors’ offices in Guinea
This blog is a part of #COVID19Africa Series. Click for French version Guinea’s health sector is primarily public. The first line of healthcare consists of more than 410 public health facilities, some 100 private non-profit facilities, and many private for-profit doctors’ offices. Even before the first COVID-19 case was reported in Guinea on 12 March […]
Première ligne de soins et pandémie du COVID-19 : les centres de santé privés à but non lucratif et les cabinets médicaux en Guinée
This blog is a part of #COVID19Africa Series. Click for English version En Guinée, le système de santé est essentiellement public. Sa première ligne de soins regroupe 410 centres de santé publics, une centaine de centres de santé et centres médicaux communautaires privés à but non lucratif et de nombreux cabinets médicaux privés lucratifs. La […]
Is India detecting enough cases to be able to contain COVID-19? A dive into sub-national data
In a bid to control COVID-19, India is in the midst of a 21- day lockdown. It is increasingly becoming clear that COVID-19 cannot be solved in a 21-day race. The big question on everyone’s mind is how, when, and in what form COVID-19 will end? Successful containment comprises tracking the disease transmission within a […]
Public Health Communication for COVID-19: Can professional health associations in India do more?
The glimmer of hope provided by the damping down of the COVID-19 epidemic curve in China is being compensated for by the rapid rise of the number of cases and deaths in Italy, Iran, and South Korea, with WHO’s risk assessment in China, the Regional Level and the Global Level remaining ‘Very High’. India, […]
Protecting China’s healthcare workers during COVID-19
With over a hundred thousand COVID-19 cases across 100 countries , the World Health Organization (WHO), has declared the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (1). COVID-19 originated from Wuhan in the Hubei Province in China, the epicenter of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak since December 2019. COVID-19 is highly contagious and […]