COVID-19: The Pandemic and The Response in the WHO-South-East Asia Region


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Most people with mild and moderate COVID-19 can manage the infection at home with advice from a health care provider. Here are tips on what to do if you have COVID-19, and when to go to the hospital. It also informs on what medicines to take, and what to avoid.

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The world is in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic. As WHO and partners work together on the response -- tracking the pandemic, advising on critical interventions, distributing vital medical supplies to those in need.

Meeting Reports

Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic

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Virtual Regional Consultation with Informal Expert Group Virtual meeting New Delhi, India, 19 October 2021

Learning from the COVID-19 response to strengthen health security and health systems resilience

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Virtual meeting, New Delhi, India, 20–22 October 2021 Report of the meeting

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Publications

Strengthening public health surveillance and risk assessment for health security threats in the WHO South-East Asia Region

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health globally and in the Region. To more effectively manage current and future epidemics, pandemics...

Regional Strategic Roadmap for Health Security
and Health System Resilience for Emergencies
2023–2027

The Regional Strategic Roadmap on health security and health system resilience for emergencies 2023–2027 was developed under the overall guidance...

South-East Asia Regional Roadmap for Diagnostic Preparedness, Integrated Laboratory Networking and Genomic Surveillance (2023–2027)

In the first quarter of this century alone, the South-East Asia Region experienced several outbreaks of influenza A (H1N1), avian influenza A (H5N1),...

Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic: virtual regional consultation with informal expert group, 19 October 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that the pre-pandemic level of preparedness was not sufficient to effectively manage such a severe health emergency. To...