Source · Select Committees · Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Recommendation 89
89
On 24 February the World Health Organisation published the report of its international mission to...
Conclusion
On 24 February the World Health Organisation published the report of its international mission to Wuhan, and advised that countries should: (1) Immediately activate the highest level of national Response Management protocols to ensure the all-of-government and all-of-society approach needed to contain COVID-19 with non-pharmaceutical public health measures; (2) Prioritize active, exhaustive case finding and immediate testing and isolation, painstaking contact tracing and rigorous quarantine of close contacts122 The same report identified the virus as highly contagious, and with a prima facie case fatality rate of 3.8%, rising to over 20% among over 80s.123