Risk Assessment Report – 01 june 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 01 june 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
June 01, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 01 june 2020
Time Period Covered June 01, 2020 - June 01, 2020
- World Health Organization’s (WHO) WHO has published key planning recommendations for mass gatherings in the context of the current COVID-19 outbreak. The document provides guidance on containing risks of COVID-19 transmission associated with mass gathering events (WHO Report 131).
- Indonesia’s Health Ministry Research and Development Agency (Balitbangkes) has issued a circular letter instructing doctors involved in the global clinical Solidarity Trial to suspend the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients over safety concerns. The agency wrote that new patients should not be treated with hydroxychloroquine but that patients who had been treated with hydroxychloroquine should continue the treatment under the monitoring, with special attention to the medicine’s side effects on the cardiovascular system.
- Laos’ Prime Minister’s Office has released a notice detailing updated lockdown measures, slowly allowing more sectors to reopen as the country transitions toward the new normal. The notice states that while the country has managed to control the spread of the COVID-19, resident should remain vigilant and continue to abide the measures determined by the National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
- Metro Manila (Philippines) is set to implement a more relaxed community quarantine starting today (June 1). It will now ease down protocols from modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) to the less strict general community quarantine (GCQ). Under GCQ, more establishments will be allowed to re-open while those currently operating will be allowed to increase their workforce provided that they follow health safety standards, like the wearing of face masks, social distancing, and temperature checks.
Risk Assessment Report – 01 june 2020