Chile: COVID-19
Description
In times of pandemics, the government’s role is critical- from sharing latest and accurate information with public to developing strategies to minimize impacts and recover. As Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are central for the management of COVID-19, it is especially important to continue close monitoring, enhance communication strategies, intensify active surveillance systems, and prepare for resilience of health systems (WHO 2020), all of which are areas were digital interventions are useful. Digital tools are promising surveillance, communication, and countermeasure tools to COVID-19 that have been widely applied globally. Scroll down to see what Chile is doing to fight COVID-19 using digital tools.
Digital Response
- The Chilean government shares COVID-19 action plan through this website. You can find decreed quarantines, customs and sanitary cords in specific areas of the country to control the spread of the virus between regions in this page.
Official government website for COVID-19
- CoronAPP is the official application of the Government of Chile to prevent contagion of Coronavirus
- The application allows you to:
- (i) Carry out a self-evaluation of your symptoms to generate a risk classification
- (ii) Receive notifications from the Ministry of Health
- (ii) Deliver informative content on the contingency and evolution of the pandemic
- (iv) Provide an instance to report and / or report high risk behaviors or events
- (v) Indicate the place where you will spend your quarantine
- The application allows you to:
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