WHO\/Europe has been collecting and sharing best practices in contact tracing from countries of the WHO European Region and documenting a variety of approaches to develop case studies and to contribute to future guidelines and recommendations.<\/p>\n
Dr Richard Pebody, who leads the High-threat Pathogen team at WHO\/Europe, commented: \u201c…Contact tracing<\/strong> is an effective public health measure for combatting COVID-19, but experience has highlighted that it can be challenging for countries<\/strong> to establish a well functioning contact-tracing mechanism that can cope when there is widespread community transmission. We have commonly seen small teams of contact tracers having to deal with large numbers of COVID-19 cases and contacts.\u201d<\/p>\n According to WHO, contact tracing has never been conducted at such a scale as during the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically applied, contact tracing can help to break chains of transmission<\/strong> of infection and be a tool for keeping societies open.<\/p>\n But establishing comprehensive contact-tracing systems can be complex and resource-intensive.<\/p>\n One of the initial case studies was conducted by WHO in Kyrgyzstan <\/strong>and it involved interviews with key personnel undertaking contact tracing at national, regional and local levels, as well as with WHO focal points.<\/p>\n In Kyrgyzstan, contact tracing has been one of the key strategies employed by national health authorities to interrupt chains of transmission and reduce morbidity and mortality, as recommended by WHO.<\/p>\n Their contact-tracing infrastructure for COVID-19 was built on existing public health experience and expertise, although as case numbers rose rapidly, there was a need to train additional personnel to expand the contact-tracing workforce and scale up operations.<\/p>\n Additional case studies on contact tracing are planned with other countries, – reports WHO\/Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: https:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/countries\/kyrgyzstan\/news\/news\/2021\/11\/europes-lessons-learned-in-covid-19-contact-tracing<\/p>\n Picture: Kabar, Kyrgyzstan at https:\/\/kabar.kg\/news\/v-kyrgyzstane-povsemestno-razvernuty-call-center-po-protivodeistviiu-rasprostraneniia-covid-19\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHO\/Europe has been collecting and sharing best practices in contact tracing from countries of the WHO European Region and documenting a variety of approaches to develop case studies and to contribute to future guidelines and recommendations. Dr Richard Pebody, who leads the High-threat Pathogen team at WHO\/Europe, commented: \u201c…Contact tracing is an effective public health measure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}