Key Principles
Take it Seriously: Demonstrate courageous leadership, and establish global, national and local
emergency committees to oversee strategic responses as below:
Coordinate and Communicate: Ensure clear lines of co-ordination between sectors and geographical
levels, and establish daily communications supported by social media
Stop the Spread: Prioritise testing and surveillance to monitor and target proportionate responses with basic public health measures to control and contain the outbreak
Save Lives: Prepare surge capacity of the health sector, with triage systems, re-deploy staff and buildings supplied with protective equipment, beds and respirators
Protect and Secure: Create caring communities, target and protect vulnerable populations; stabilise
economic impacts, ensure essential services and wider security
Research, Recover and Reflect: Fast track research prioritising vaccines; establish a Recovery Committee for long-term planning; evaluate and reflect for the future