This page provides links to useful information resources on COVID-19.
To see the ADN Bulletin on Coronavirus, please click here.
Update from ADN’s Members
- Caribbean COVID-19 Update from Mr Krishna Clarke
- COVID-19 Overview in Africa from Dr Azukaego Nnaji
- Belize COVID-19 Update from Mr Daniel Mendez
- Reflections on Resilience: COVID-19: An Opportunity to learn effective Disaster Governance from Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett
- Reflections on Resilience: “How Do You Lock Down a Farm Full of Cumin Seeds?” from Mr Mihir Bhatt
- Odisha, India COVID-19 Update from Dr. Jalandhar Pradhan, Mr. Niranjan Bariyar and Dr. Madhulika Sahoo
Guidelines and Information
- Applying Lessons from COVID-19 Prevention and Risk World– Statement by the Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020
- Critical preparedness, readiness and response actions for COVID-19– World Health Organization, 2020
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic– World Health Organization, 2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) resource page – Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020
- COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn– UNICEF, 2020
- COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery: Apply IRP Disaster Recovery Tools and Guidelines to Pandemic Recovery– International Recovery Platform, 2020
- COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief– International Recovery Platform, 2020
- Covid-19: remote consultations (Visual summary)– The BMJ, 2020
- (Covid 19) advice for patients in 21 languages– Doctors of the World, 2020
- Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine – The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020
- Govt Covid-19 app just the start in New Zealand- Daalder, 2020
- Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), September Update – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
- OPINION: From COVID-10 crisis comes opportunity to rethink risk– Mami Mizutori and Heide Hackmann, UNDRR, 2020
- Responding to community spread of COVID-19– World Health Organization
- Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Potential Airborne Transmission – Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
- Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in global COVID-19 response– UNFPA, 2020
Global Statistics
- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases– Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, 2020
- COVID-19: Emerging gender data and why it matters– UN Women, 2020
- Worldometer estimated current numbers based on statistics and projections from official organizations, including the UN Population Division, World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank.
Journal Articles and Research
- 70 per cent of COVID cases located in just 10 countries, WHO reports – UN News, 2020
- Adaptive leadership in the coronavirus response: bridging science, policy and practice. Overseas Development Institute (ODI). – Ramalingham, Wild and Ferrari, 2020
- Affirming Radical Equality in the Context of COVID-19: Human Rights of Older People and People with Disabilities. Journal of Human Rights Practice. – Akerkar, 2020
- An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time. The Lancet. – Dong, Du and Gardner, 2020
- Asia emerges as world’s surveillance hotspot: Human Rights Outlook 2020 – Verisk Maplecroft, 2020
- Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework. Progress in Disaster Science. – Djalante, Shawb and DeWit, 2020
- Case Series of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection — United Kingdom and United States, March–August 2020 – Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
- COVID-19 Modeling with IndiaSIM – CDEEP and John Hopkins University, 2020
- Covid Symptom Tracking App– King’s College London, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals, ZOE and TwinsUK, 2020
- How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent? Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. – Spiegelhalter, 2020
- Issue brief, report complex road to recovery: COVID-19, Cyclone Amphan, monsoon flooding collide in Bangladesh and India – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
- Laying in Wait: Responding to the Pandemic Amidst Impending Disasters. Flood Resilience Portal. – Vaughan and Venkateswaren, 2020
- Long-term Health Consequences of COVID-19 – JAMA Journal- American Medical Association, 2020
- New U.N. Tracker Looks At How Countries’ COVID-19 Responses Are Helping Women – National Public Radio (NPR), 2020
- UK- Australia COVID-19 Deaths, Deprivation Deaths in Developing Countries, Indigenous Avoidable Deaths. Global Research.- Polya, 2020
Reports
- Asia and Pacific Region COVID-19 Situation Report No. 8 (Reporting Period: 1 – 30 September 2020) – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
- Coronavirus and the economic impacts on the UK: 30 July 2020 – Office for National Statistics, 2020
- Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain: 31 July 2020 – Office for National Statistics, 2020
- COVID-19: A Gender Lens– UNFPA, 2020
- UNDRR Initial COVID-19 Engagement Strategy– UNDRR, 2020
- Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Action Plan Guidance: COVID-19 Preparedness and Response– WHO, IFRC and UNICEF, 2020
- The impact of COVID-19 on mental, neurological and substance use services – World Health Organization, 2020
- UNDRR: Prevention saves lives! COVID-19 Key Messages and Communication Campaign– UNDRR, 2020
Information Specific to India
- COVID-19 INDIA– Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, 2020
- Covid-19 in India: the dangers of false optimism – The Lancet, 2020
- Detail Question and Answers on COVID-19 for Public– Government of Karnataka and National Health Mission, 2020
- Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states – Science Magazine, 2020
- India nudges to contain COVID-19 pandemic: A reactive public policy analysis using machine-learning based topic modeling – PLOS ONE, 2020
- Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Update Report – 10– World Health Organization, 2020
- Post COVID management protocol – Government of India Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services (EMR Division), 2020
- Standard Operating Procedures on preventive measures to contain spread of COVID-19 during festivities – Government of India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services (Emergency Medical Relief), 2020
Information Specific to Bangladesh
- Bangladesh: WHO strengthens COVID-19 screening at points of entry with EU aid – World Health Organization, 2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update– Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, 2020
- Covid-19 Status Bangladesh– Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), 2020
- Monsoon floods push millions of children into uncertainty amid COVID-19 – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
- Movement-wide monthly report on COVID-19, August 2020 – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
- National Preparedness and Response Plan for COVID-19, Bangladesh– Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, 2020
- Rohingya Refugee Response COVID-19 Report: World Vision Bangladesh – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
- The impact of COVID-19 on rural women and enterprises: A rapid socio-economic assessment in Bangladesh by the empower project – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—Reliefweb, 2020
Other Information Portals
- 2019-nCoV Resource– Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 2020
- APRU Plus: Addressing the Crisis, an online hub of information- APRU Plus, 2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Office for National Statistics, 2020
- Coronavirus: Latest research and analysis on the implications of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide– Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 2020
- Coronavirus Outbreak knowledge hub– Global Health Network
- Coronavirus resources– Evidence Aid, 2020
- COVID-19 Dedicated UN website – United Nations, 2020
- COVID-19 Information & Resources – Google
- Finding the evidence: Coronavirus– Public Health England, 2020
- Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service– Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (University of Oxford), 2020
- The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator – World Health Organization, 2020
- The Manchester briefing on COVID-19– Alliance Manchester Business School, 2020
- Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication– University of Cambridge, 2020