Mental
health and psycho social considerations during the COVID 19 outbreak : WHO department of mental health gives
series of solutions and messages that can be used in
communications to support mental and psycho social well being in different target groups during the
outbreak. read
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1. Resources about the disease
Coronavirus
refers to a family of viruses. COVID-19 – or Coronavirus Disease – is the
infectious disease caused by a newly discovered type of coronavirus.
As the World Health Organization
(WHO) has set out, most people infected with the COVID-19
virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover
without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with
underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic
respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. Common
symptoms include fever, tiredness and a dry cough. Other symptoms include
shortness of breath, aches and pains, sore throat, and very few people will
report diarrhea, nausea or a runny nose.
The best
way to prevent and slow down transmission is be well informed about the
COVID-19 virus, the disease it causes and how it spreads. The COVID-19 virus
spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when
an infected person coughs or sneezes. To find out more about the virus, see
the WHO’s research pages, or
the Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) on the virus prepared by the WHO. You may also
wish to sign up to the WHO’s WhatsApp alert in
order to receive trustworthy information directly to your phone.
2. Resources about latest cases
National
authorities around the world are working to gather information about numbers
of tests, infections and consequences. You should turn first to your national
authorities for this information, as they should have the most recent data.
At the
global level, the WHO is releasing daily updates on
the situation. This information is used to build the WHO’s dashboard on
cases. The Centre for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins
University is also maintaining a global map live,
including figures on numbers of recovered patients. This is being used
regularly in media reporting.
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