La version française de ce cours est disponible sur : https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-au-ncov

The Simplified Chinese version of the course is available here: https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov-ZH

La versión en español de este curso está disponible aquí : https://openwho.org/courses/introduccion-al-ncov

A versão em português do Brasil deste curso encontra-se disponível aqui: https://openwho.org/courses/introducao-ao-ncov

The Arabic version of this course is available here: https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-COVID-19-AR

Overview: This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe:

• The nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses;
• What strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

Learning objective: Describe the fundamental principles of emerging respiratory viruses and how to effectively respond to an outbreak.

Course duration: Approximately 3 hours.

Certificates: No certificate available at this time.

As the official disease name was established after material creation, any mention of nCoV refers to COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus.

Attention:

• WHO teams are working on additional modules which will be uploaded in the coming days.
• You will be notified when new modules and videos are uploaded. Currently, the materials are offered as slide decks.
• The course will offer a certificate in the future, after all of the modules have been published and a quiz has been added to each module.
• The course materials are currently being translated into other languages.