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Pakistan - Central command center tasked with vaccinations and covid management

Thailand - Ministry of health with the universities and professional associations created COVID19 guidelines for health care facilities

Philippines - Interagency task force created to respond to the pandemic, with the department of health, department of trade and industry, and other agencies. Key persons called "Czars" appointed to look over the implementation of policies for vaccination, testing, contact tracing etc

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Pakistan - high vaccination rate, high vaccination acceptance rate; established vaccination centers

Thailand/Philippines - initial hesitation with vaccination, problems with vaccine supplies. A vaccination policy was crafted to prioritize groups for vaccination. With easing of the supplies issue, vaccines offered to more sectors and subpopulations, and late last year started vaccination of the pediatric (teens) and this month the 5-11 children

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Hungary:
Mandatory mask-wearing,
different types of vaccines

65% vaccinated

Travel restrictions and lockdowns

A committee that meets on a weekly basis

Alaska:
advisory wearing the masks, then mandates and federal workers got vaccinated.

Many hospitals and health care facilities passed resolutions to get vaccinated.

Protests against wearing masks and vaccines

Misinformation and disinformation

Mistrust and unrest

Travel restrictions

65% vaccinated

Botswana:

Declaring a disaster
A framework of responses depending on the disease severity

Issue of lockdown (3 weeks)

Closure of schools

Procurement of vaccines

Also there were donations of vaccines
Vaccinations for the elderly at the beginning then now it is for those above 12

started booster doses

Iraq:

A committee that meets on weekly basis to monitor the epidemiologic situation and make recommendations

Issue of lockdowns and travel restrictions

Expanding of testing to all governorates

Shifting education to electronic platforms

Three different vaccines available to all those  who want to get vaccinated (Above 18)

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FIJI

Testing, vaccination, whole of government approach lead by MOH; several lock down (not as effective in 2021)

Intermediate care facilities

Home Isolation

Testing - challenges - approach switched (death rates, antenatal rates observed)

Teachers/other ministries -volunteers for Hotline and Administrative Support

Vaccination - no jab mo job policy - no vaccination or second dose - no job - a lot of backlash and outcry from religious groups and medical staff

More than 93 % vaccinated today

Booster 15% and slowly picking up

Board control in 2020 and institution of curfews

Used as a buy-in, every-time vaccination rate increased by 10% curfew would be shift back by one hour until finally raised

Many islands - COVID-19 did spread; logistical nightmare getting results back to mainland. MOH developed satellite teams to bring about stabilization and control; and hand back to local communities; entire system closer

COVID-19 dashboard developed - useful for determining spike

Trinidad & Tobago
Same as above basically
Institution of Parallel healthcare system

State of emergency  and curfew

Samoa
No COVID19; detection at boarder

Iraq

1st case February 2020;

Boarders closed to persons coming from China or passing through China

Some scattered cases within 1st wave

Closer of country 1 month to 45 days

Difficult to continue measures because the political system is unstable; issues between community and government

Closure during holidays to prevent community transmission

Now facing 4th wave with Omicron - wave started in January with spikes, now diffusing

Community support through NGOs;

Home isolation for mild and asymptomatic cases with severe and moderate cases receiving hospitalization

Field visits for those isolated at home; challenge on healthcare system and healthcare workers coming down with disease

Social distancing and mask wearing to mitigate

Vaccination for high-risk groups; challenge convincing populations to take vaccine

12 and older receive vaccines: SPH followed by AZ followed by Pfizer

Challenge implementing measures needed for vaccination programs: challenge exist with other diseases due to low vaccination

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Srilanka
maintain quarantine facilities
Isolation of cases
Vaccinations
Traditional medicine
Lockdowns to contain spread
Bhutan
Closure of borders
Vaccination
Quarantine facilities and isolation
Protecting vulnerable by increasing vaccine coverage
Whole Of government whole of society approach
Rwanda
Lockdowns
Task force to manage pandemic
Engagement of youth volunteers to help citizens cope with public health measures implemented like mask wearing and vaccination
Trinidad
Lockdown, border controls, quarantine facilities,travel restrictions
Vaccination drives, mass vaccination sites, drive through, mandatory pcr for repatriation with mandatory quarantine. Vaccine allow for less restrictions
Use of media/ local celebrities to encourage vaccines,
Namibia
Namibia
Lockdowns
Contact tracing
Vaccination sites
Expansion of health facilities and hospitals
Launch of community centre as port of communication for persons to call
Curfew
Inter ministerial coordination- defense ministry with health

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Hungary:

Vaccination hesitancy and choosing the right vaccines

Utilization of health care (ICU beds)

Botswana:

Acquisition of vaccines

Vaccine hesitancy

Distribution of vaccines

Iraq:

Vaccine hesitancy

Misinformation

Alaska

Mistrust, distrust

Alaska

Storage of vaccines

Misinformation and disinformation

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Challenges:

Fiji

Logistics given that there are many small islands - mitigated by the development of satellite groups

Fall out from no jam no job policy from religious groups and some medical workers

Vaccination hesitancy - mitigated by buy-in : 10% vaccination resulted in push back of curfew by 1 hr (per additional 10%)

Staff challenges in healthcare - mitigated by utilization of non-essential workers in support roles - hotlines and administrative duties

Trinidad

Development of parallel healthcare system resulted in shared resources (healthcare staff) between traditional healthcare system and new parallel healthcare - mitigated by recruitment of additional doctors

Vaccination hesitancy

Iraq
Vaccination hesitancy and inadequate measures for vaccination programs in general (for other diseases)

Unsustainable lockdowns due to unstable political environment - mitigated by focus on other initiatives: social distancing, mask wearing, vaccination of high-risk groups, utilization of NGOs, etc.

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Group 5 •	                       Inadequate  human resource in the health sector•	Access to the vaccine and PPE•	Misinformation and fake news•	Vaccine hesitancy•	Poor coordination and communication among stakeholders            

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Group 5 •	                       Inadequate  human resource in the health sector•	Access to the vaccine and PPE•	Misinformation and fake news•	Vaccine hesitancy•	Poor coordination and communication among stakeholders            