Type of Intervention: Other Announcement
Sectors Involved: Transportation, Health
Intervention Categories: Education and awareness
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: Bahamas Ministry of Health
Overview: On 1/22/20 Bahamas’ Ministry of Health made their first public service announcement to inform their citizens of the novel coronavirus, at that time identified by the WHO as in Asia and already spread to the US. The Ministry boldly emphasized the WHO was not recommending travel nor trade trestrictions, and noting the PHEIC deferred declaration of a Public Health Mergency of International Concern.
Full details here: http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/6aaac324-1f3e-40d5-ace3-a914408a9a41/PRESS+RELEASE+-+Novel+Coronavirus+2019-nCoV+++22nd+Jan+2020+%281%29.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
Type of Justification: Advice of EXTERNAL expert advisor or advisory committee
Source of Evidence or Justification: World Health Organisation, International – other, Pan American Health Organization
Evidence/Justification: WHO announcement of zoonotic virus causing pneumonia in Wuhan, China with pread to other Asian countirs and even the United States