COVID-19

The covid-19 outbreak has shown we need strategies to manage panic during epidemics

2020

BMJ Opinion, February 2020

The ongoing covid-19 outbreak has underlined the need for more research on the nature of panic and its drivers. The strategies we have for communicating about risk and engaging with communities are insufficient.

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PREPARE continues active measures as novel Coronavirus outbreak in Italy unfolds

2020

Antwerp, Belgium – 24 February 2020

Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infected patients have been reported in Europe for several weeks now and PREPARE has been monitoring developments very closely.

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PREPARE activated to Mode 2 in response to novel Coronavirus cases in Europe

2020

Antwerp, Belgium – 6 February 2020

On 30th January 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of 2019-nCoV a public health emergency of international concern.

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