- Title
- Government's COVID-19 Immunization Drive Through National Immunization Management System (NIMS) in Pakistan
- Creator
- Abbas, Asad; Wang, Liya; Mannan, Abdul
- Relation
- 7th International Conference on Educational Innovation(CIIE). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Innovation (Montery 14-16 December 2020) p. 507-513
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3383-7_41
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- In December 2019, the world was shaken when the first coronavirus (COVID-19) case was detected in Wuhan, China (Zeng et al. 2020). After that, it was witnessed that the coronavirus became unstoppable and spread globally within a matter of days. In February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) several times issued an advisory about deadly viruses and reiterated its consequences. However, notable governmental ignorance worldwide (World Health Organization 2020) was evidenced when almost 200 countries went into lockdown (Roche et al. 2020). In the lockdowns, governments partially or fully halted all socio-economic activities and asked all citizens to immediately observe isolation at home. The cause of the lockdowns was a lack of information about the initial symptoms of the deadly virus. After immense efforts by medical scientists and paramedic staff, this unknown deadly virus became recognized as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), belonging to the coronavirus family. Initially declared as the SARS coronavirus, the WHO later announced it as SARS-Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19). The initial symptoms of the COVID-19 pandemic manifested as dry cough, high fever, and loss of taste. After acquiring basic information about COVID-19 symptoms, the WHO issued protection guidelines to avoid transmission of the virus, including social distancing, using face masks, and hand sanitizing (World Health Organization 2021).
- Subject
- COVID-19; e-governance; educational innovation; immunization; national immunization management system; Pakistan
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1486953
- Identifier
- uon:52004
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811933820
- Language
- eng
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