Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Secrets Revealed About the Covid-19 Pandemic. A complete Rational Guide of its Evolution, Expansion, Symptoms and First Defense

partners and collaborating organizations, to adopt a robust risk
communication strategy, and to allow research and scientific advances in
relation to this novel corona virus to be furthered.
The WHO will continue to explore the advisability of establishing an
intermediate level of warning between the binary possibilities of PHEIC or
no PHEIC, so that discussions on the IHR text do not need to be reopened
(2005).
The WHO will review the situation with consistency in due time and update
its recommendations based on evidence. The Committee does not propose
any restrictions on travel or trade based on the current available information.
The Director-General announced that the Covid-19 outbreak constitutes a
PHEIC and acknowledged the advice of the Committee and released this
advice as Temporary Recommendations under the IHR.
To the People's Republic of China:
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Develop a systematic risk communication strategy to inform the public
on a regular basis about the nature of the outbreak, the population's
prevention and security measures, and the response measures taken for
its containment. 

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Improve public health programs to curb the current outbreak.
• 
Ensure health system stability and secure health-care workers.
• 
Increase monitoring and successful case finding across China.
• 
Collaborate with the WHO and its collaborators in carrying out studies
to clarify the epidemiology and evolution of this epidemic and its
control steps.
• 
Partake of appropriate human case info.
• 
Continue to identify the zoonotic source of the outbreak as soon as it
becomes available, and in particular the potential for circulation with
WHO;
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Perform exit screening at international airports and ports with the goal
of early detection for further assessment and treatment of symptomatic
travelers while reducing interference with international traffic. 
To all countries:
• 
More foreign export of cases is expected to appear in any region. All
countries should therefore be prepared for containment, including active
monitoring, early detection, isolation and case management,
communication tracking and prevention of further spread of Covid-
19infection, and full data sharing with World health organization.
Professional guidance can be found on the WHO web site.
• 
Countries are reminded that they are legally obliged under the IHR to
share information with the WHO.
• 
Any identification of the Covid-19 in animals (including species
information, diagnostic tests and relevant epidemiological information)
should be reported as an emerging disease to the World Organization
for Animal Health (OIE).
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Countries should place particular emphasis on reducing human
infection, preventing secondary transmission and international
dissemination, and contribute to international response through multi-
sector cooperation and collaboration and active participation in
enhancing virus and disease awareness, as well as advancing research; 
• 
The Committee does not propose any restrictions on travel or trade
based on the current available information. 
• 
Countries shall inform WHO, as required by the IHR, of travel
measures taken. Countries are warned against acts encouraging stigma
or prejudice, in accordance with the IHR's Article 3 principles.

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In view of this rapidly evolving situation, the Committee requested the
Director-General to provide further guidance on these matters and, if
necessary, to make new case-by-case recommendations.
To the global community:
• 
As this is a new corona virus and it has been shown previously those
similar corona viruses require substantial efforts to allow routine
information sharing and analysis, the global community will continue to
show solidarity and cooperation in supporting each other in identifying
the source of this new corona virus, in compliance with Article 44 of the
IHR (2005).
• 
Help low-and middle-income countries to respond to this incident and
to promote access to diagnostics, possible vaccines and therapies.
Under Article 43 of the IHR, States Parties adopting additional health
measures that substantially interfere with international traffic (refusal of entry
or departure for more than 24 hours of international travelers, luggage,
freight, containers, conveyances, goods and the like) are obliged to send to
the WHO a rationale and justification for public health within 48 hours of
their arrival. WHO will review the reasoning and may ask countries to
rethink their steps. WHO is required to share information regarding
interventions and the rationale obtained with other States Parties. The UN's
health arm said the move was to protect countries with "weaker health
systems," but the WHO also said there was no excuse for steps that would
interfere excessively with international travel and trade.

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