The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia in 2019, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica.

We have now reached the tragic milestone of more than two million deaths, and the human family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss.

“The climbing death toll is staggering, and we must work together to slow the spread of this virus.” - UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.

Overview:

This course will cover the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures required in order to:

• Be prepared and ready to respond to an outbreak, in particular, the one due to COVID-19.
• Limit human to human transmission by way of implementing WHO recommended IPC interventions.
• Identify, isolate and report suspect and confirmed cases.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

Learning objectives:

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

• define IPC and its role in the context of preparedness, readiness and response;
• describe the current epidemiological COVID-19 situation, including case definitions and signs & symptoms;
• describe source control, administrative controls and environmental and engineering controls;
• describe the WHO-recommended IPC measures for health care facilities, including when dealing with suspect or confirmed COVID-19 cases;
• describe additional IPC measures to be taken to assist in general preparedness within a health care facility.

Journal of  Bacteriology & Parasitology is an 12 volume journal is using Editorial Tracking System for quality in review process. Editorial Tracking is an online manuscript submission, review and tracking systems used by most of the best open access journals. Review processing is performed by the editorial board members of Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology or outside experts; at least two independent reviewers approval followed by editor's approval is required for acceptance of any citable manuscript.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts https://www.longdom.org/submissions/bacteriology-parasitology.html or as an e-mail attachment to bacteriology@emedsci.com

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Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology
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Amy Gill
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