Repurposing facilities for isolation and management of mild COVID-19 cases
Repurposing facilities for isolation and management of mild COVID-19 cases
- Manila : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, [2020].
- 5 pages.
During the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the worldwide attention has been drawn to emergency response to cope with surge in limited healthcare resource settings. Some countries have developed novel strategies in transforming non-health facilities public facilities and hotel accommodations into temporary isolation facilities for managing mild COVID-19 patients who do not require hospitalization. These strategies have proven effective in allocating the limited health-care resources more efficiently.
This interim guidance provides stepwise recommendations on minimum standards of repurposing existing premises into isolation facilities to cope with the surge of patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms who do not require immediate hospitalization.
Coronavirus Infections
Infection Control
Disease Outbreaks
COVID-19
Betacoronavirus
During the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the worldwide attention has been drawn to emergency response to cope with surge in limited healthcare resource settings. Some countries have developed novel strategies in transforming non-health facilities public facilities and hotel accommodations into temporary isolation facilities for managing mild COVID-19 patients who do not require hospitalization. These strategies have proven effective in allocating the limited health-care resources more efficiently.
This interim guidance provides stepwise recommendations on minimum standards of repurposing existing premises into isolation facilities to cope with the surge of patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms who do not require immediate hospitalization.
Coronavirus Infections
Infection Control
Disease Outbreaks
COVID-19
Betacoronavirus