This video encourages the public to get tested for COVID-19 if they start experiencing symptoms. On some occasions, someone who is sick is not infected with the common cold rather than COVID-19. Nevertheless, getting tested is the only way to know for sure.
Source: Get Tested – It might be common cold symptoms
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This video asks the public to get tested for COVID-19 when exposed to someone who tests positive.
Source: Request to test for COVID-19
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This poster, produced by Nepal’s National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre, explains what to do after taking a COVID-19 PCR test. It also has short blurbs on mask wearing, social (physical) distancing, and hand washing.
Source: What to do after a PCR test
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This poster, produced by Nepal’s National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre, explains that you should get tested for COVID-19 if you start feeling symptoms. It also has short blurbs on mask wearing, social (physical) distancing, and hand washing.
Source: Test yourself for COVID-19
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The COVID-19 Testing Communications Toolkit is a free, public resource for anyone looking to communicate the importance of COVID-19 testing to communities. It is designed for use in the US, but can be used for communities in other parts of the world as well.
The toolkit includes evidence-based tutorials, handouts, and image library to help in translating public health goals into motivating, clear messages that educate the public about why, when, and where to get tested, even if they feel healthy.
Source: COVID-19 Testing Communications Toolkit
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In this report, the Partnership for EvidenceBased Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a consortium of global public health organizations and private sector firms, brings together findings from a survey conducted March 29-April 17, 2020 in 28 cities across 20 AU Member States, along with epidemiological measures of disease transmission and indicators of population movements and unrest, among others. Synthesized, these data provide a first-of-its-kind snapshot of baseline conditions in Africa during this rapidly evolving pandemic.
The following recommendations are made:
Source: Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance
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The WHO mobile learning app focuses on providing frontline health workers with critical, evidence-based information and tools to improve their skills and capabilities related to the pandemic.
This COVID-19 Digital Response offers up-to-the-minute guidance, training, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19, as well as how they can protect themselves as they do their critical work.
The app was created in direct response to an online survey of health workers conducted in March and April 2020 that received 20,000 submissions. Key features include learning guidance, learning materials, and tools organized into the following COVID-19 subject matter areas:
The WHO mobile learning app is a convenient tool for accessing WHO’s rapidly expanding and evolving training materials and guidance, along with opportunities to participate in virtual classrooms and other live training in six global languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Source: WHO COVID-19 Learning Resources Application
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This primer contains all basic information on COVID-19 intended for the general public and printed in broadsheets. It has short sections on transmission, common symptoms, ways to protect yourself, steps to take if you catch the virus, and Q&A.
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This primer contains all basic information on COVID-19 intended for the general public and printed in broadsheets. It has short sections on transmission, common symptoms, ways to protect yourself, steps to take if you catch the virus, and Q&A.
Source: All You Need to Know about COVID-19
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