Repurposing facilities for isolation and management of mild COVID-19 cases 

 - Manila :   WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific,  [2020]. 
 - 5 pages. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coronavirus Infections<br/>Infection Control<br/>Disease Outbreaks<br/>COVID-19<br/>Betacoronavirus