| Governance and national coordination |
Actions developed to promote national coordination of public policies to face the COVID-19 pandemic by: |
| - Formulating an agreed national plan, defining the role of each level of government; |
| - Defining a structure for governance and monitoring and evaluating this plan; |
| - Achieving a balance between decentralization and centralization of strategies and actions; |
| - Strengthening political-institutional capacities in different levels of government; |
| - Increasing diplomacy and intergovernmental cooperation mechanisms. |
| Communication with society |
Actions developed to provide transparency to decisions taken at the government level so that society can be informed and participate in the process through: |
| - Regular official communications from government bodies on strategies to be implemented and in progress; |
| - Publication and dissemination of daily updated epidemiological data; |
| - Maintenance of a public panel on the occupation of hospital beds, including ICU beds; |
| Controlling spread of the pandemic |
Policies and actions developed to reduce transmission of infection in territories, restricting mobility and social contact through: |
| - Case isolation measures and contact quarantine; |
| - Measures of physical distancing or lockdown, according to an analysis of the epidemiological situation by: |
| - Maintaining the safety distance (1.5 to 2 meters), recommending the use of a mask and personal hygiene; |
| - Canceling or postponing major collective events; |
| - Suspending face-to-face activities in school and religious institutions; |
| - Suspending (partially or totally) non-essential activities; |
| - Controlling land and air borders, restricting the movement of people and goods. |
| Strengthening the health and surveillance system |
Policies and actions developed to expand capacity of health systems to carry out health care and surveillance by: |
| - Increasing care capacity at all levels of care, with particular attention to primary health care (PHC), hospital beds and ICU beds; |
| - Increasing laboratory capacity to carry out diagnostic tests, strengthening network of public laboratories; |
| - Facilitating adequate supplies and equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), medications and mechanical ventilators; |
| - Organizing health services, defining flows and points of care appropriate to locoregional reality, emphasizing the role of PHC in telehealth service and home care, whenever possible; |
| - Implementing a public regulation of access to essential goods (medicines, masks, and beds), with national price regulation; |
| - Standardizing data recording systems on new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, with national coordination; |
| - Articulating PHC and epidemiological surveillance to implement rapid detection measures for possible new outbreaks, including early identification (confirmed by RT-PCR, if possible) and contact tracing; |
| - Increasing investment in sentinel, genomic and laboratory surveillance systems and the interoperability of these systems at national, state, and local levels. |
| Strengthening social protection and economic support measures |
Policies and actions developed to guarantee social protection to the population, with particular attention to the most vulnerable; and favor the resumption of productive, commercial and financial activities through: |
| - Direct income transfer policies; |
| - Support for housing maintenance, such as social rent, temporary suspension of mortgage payments and containment of eviction actions; |
| - Guaranteed access to essential goods such as water, electricity and gas; |
| - Expansion of access to unemployment insurance, including self-employed and informal workers; |
| - Fiscal and financial support for small and medium-sized companies; |
| - Tax concessions to companies. |
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Source: WHO