Open AccessResponding to changing case definition of COVID-19: experience from Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal
Author(s) -
Sumana Bajracharya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of patan academy of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2091-2757
pISSN - 2091-2749
DOI - 10.3126/jpahs.v7i1.28884
Subject(s) - covid-19 , transmission (telecommunications) , cluster (spacecraft) , pandemic , geography , disease , medicine , virology , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , computer science , outbreak , telecommunications , programming language
It is important to track the changing case definition to plan for the clinical response. Transmission pattern of disease have been changing in COVID-19. Countries with no reported cases have moved on to sporadic, cluster of cases and then to community transmission. The response depends on how rapidly the transmission is changing in the country.