Since 2018 to date, regional and global health communities are being challenged by the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
After almost a year, since the current EVD outbreak started, there is no sign that can predict when this outbreak will be controlled. On 19 July 2019, WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with risk for regional spread including Rwanda
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WHO declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a public health event of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020
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As of March 2020, WHO declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic, and on March 14 2020
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COVID-19 has spread internationally, disrupting lives, communities, and economies worldwide. The rate and severity of the growing pandemic has become
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The aim of the study was to assess knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices towards COVID-19 among frontline healthcare workers in
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The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is a new strain of virus emerged in Wuhan Hubei, China in December 2019. The coronavirus disease
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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged from Wuhan, China at the end of December 2019 and was thought to be an unknown pneumonia that was causing acute severe respiratory distress and respiratory failure in some patients as well as other complications. Later on, the disease showed high virulence and rapid transmission from person to person. WHO declared the disease as pandemic when the spread was affecting most countries. Different modes of technologies combined with prevention strategies were conceived to minimize the rate of transmission in Rwanda.
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Rwanda’s response activities continue to be led through a multi sectoral, multi-partners approach: The Prime Minister and the National Epidemic Preparedness & Response Coordination Committee (NEPRCC) continue to lead response activities via the COVID-19 Joint Task Force Committee (JTFC). Since March 2020, the JFTC works with expert advisory teams from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, the Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Local Government as well health focused international organizations, for the management of COVID-19.
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SUMMARY
Around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared
the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern [1] in late 2019 and early 2020.
Different health prevention measures were then put in place to contain the
spread of the virus. In the absence of vaccines, some of these measures
included social distancing, country-level lockdowns, and wearing masks
among others [2].
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INTRODUCTION
Since it was reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread worldwide, presenting one of the most serious global health pandemics [1]. Worldwide, over 32 million COVID-19 cases have been reported with over 300,000 new cases in 24 hours, and over 980,000 deaths [2,3].
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Since Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was declared a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020 [1-4] and later
declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11,
2020 [2], it has claimed over 1,754,000 lives worldwide and over a total
of 79,231,000 cases reported [3]. New infection cases are continuously
rising as well as deaths and other health complications and cases with
new variants are increasing [5,7-9].
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With more than 118.3 million cases and more than 2.6 million deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide [1] and more
than 20,000 total cases and 275 deaths in Rwanda, efforts have been made to ensure global and non-discriminatory access to the vaccine [2].
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From late 2019 when the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged, there were concerns about African countries' ability to withstand the
pandemic [1]. As the pandemic was severely affecting Europe and America, overwhelming their healthcare systems. Experts started warning
that Africa's weak healthcare systems would not be able to cope [2].
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the top ten threats facing humanity, and human activities are the major drivers of this process. The quadripartite – the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organize a World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW),celebrated from 18-24 November every year.
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