Recovery, Renewal, Resilience

Lessons for Resilience

Consider taking health services and testing into the community door-to-door in communities with outbreaks
Topic:
Communities
Keywords:
Public protection
Content:

In Pune, an 'Action Plan for Hotspot Areas' was developed in which the local police force supported implementation of contact tracing and wide-spread testing, water and sanitation support, food and shelter planning and public awareness. Teams carried out local door-to-door check-ups of all households in the hotspot areas. Consider how to take public health interventions and information into the community:

  • Establish dedicated COVID care booths in hotspot areas
  • Allot dedicated ambulances in case serious cases are detected
  • Designate, specific localised teams within the hotspot area, including police, medical staff and community engagement officers to conduct thorough, localised door-to-door check-ups of all households in the hotspot areas (including virus testing)
  • Use teams to distribute medication to those who need it, and to provide discharge public health packages. These may include:
    • A packet of masks
    • Sanitizer
    • Soap
    • Cleaning products
  • Ensure comprehensive medical, nutritional, and psycho-social care for those identified as COVID-19 positive
  • To maximise identification of cases, adopt standardized systems for testing

Reference: representative of the Australian Department of Justice and Community Safety

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  • Australia
Consider how to protect key workers from violence
Topic:
Communities
Keywords:
Public protection
Content:

There have been a range of incident types against key workers, so:

  • Ensure deliberate coughing and spitting is addressed in official policy such as the UK Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act
  • Patrol areas in which key workers work to provide protection from assault and mugging as a result of workers' association with COVID-19 response, and assumptions that some workers have access to medicine and food
  • Release official statements from law enforcers to the public to bring attacks on key workers to light. Use the opportunity to fact-check claims which may appear on social media such as the one claiming that an Italian doctor had been charged with killing over 3,000 COVID-19 patients

Actively investigate hoax messages purportedly from official Government sources that could put key workers at risk

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