TY - BOOK ED - World Health Organization. TI - Repurposing facilities for isolation and management of mild COVID-19 cases PY - 2020///] CY - Manila : PB - WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific KW - Coronavirus Infections KW - Infection Control KW - Disease Outbreaks KW - COVID-19 KW - Betacoronavirus N2 - 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 UR - https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332273/WPR-DSE-2020-006-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ER -