Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak

Habibi, Roojin; Burci, Gian Luca; Campos, Thana Cristina de; Chirwa, Danwood Mzikenge; Cinà, Margherita; Dagron, Stéphanie; Eccleston-Turner, Mark; Forman, Lisa; Gostin, Lawrence O.; Meier, Benjamin Mason; Negri, Stefania; Ooms, Gorik; Sekalala, Sharifah; Taylor, Allyn L.; Yamin, Alicia Ely; Hoffman, Steven J.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30373-1

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“…Since the outbreak of COVID-19, some countries have suspended flights to and from China, and prevented Chinese people from travelling to their countries; both of these actions violate WHO International Health Regulations. 6 Similarly, in community prevention and control of the disease, the measures taken by individual villages and communities to seal off roads are of no value. 7 Such measures could result in civil unrest and reduce compliance with infection prevention and control advice.…”

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Taking the right measures to control COVID-19

Xiao

Török

2020

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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Comment 2 www.thelancet.com/infection Published online March 5, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30152-3crucial uncertainties such as clinical severity, extent of transmission and infection, and treatment options, and accelerate the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. We also need to minimise social disruption and economic impact through international, collaborative and multisectoral approaches. Most importantly, we need to communicate the epidemiology and risks of COVID-19 clearly, both to health-care workers and to the general population, and to implement infection prevention and control measures that are based on sound scientific principles.We declare no competing interests.

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Section: Taking the Right Measures To Control Covid-19mentioning

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Taking the right measures to control COVID-19

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2020

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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“…A novel zoonotic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a pandemic of respiratory infection [1,2]. COVID-19 has provoked restrictive infection control measures, social and economic disruption, and expressions of racism [3]. Systems thinking can help policymakers understand and influence the spread of infection and its multifaceted consequences across the community since society is itself a complex adaptive system [4].…”

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A systems approach to preventing and responding to COVID-19

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Kee³

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“…A case in point relates to national border policies that have been suggested to contravene International Health Regulations. 4 Anecdotes of xenophobic treatment of people from different places or fellow natives who look different are doing substantial harm to building the extra solidarity necessary in such times.…”

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