The last seven months have been instrumental to enhance public health and to use, adapt and strengthen the surveillance system to detect and contain the COVID-19 outbreak among the vulnerable populations in Cox’s Bazar. With over one million people at risk in and around the world’s largest refugee camp, WHO is using all tools available to detect, isolate, test and manage suspected cases.
Here, surveillance is conducted at different levels of the health care system and individuals in the community can play an important role too.
They can get tested, participate in contact tracing and cluster investigations and recently they started helping to tackle rumours. “Misinformation can spread faster than the virus itself”, says Dr Mushfique Rahman.