SA's hand hygiene strategy: the COVID-19 curve ball
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Makoae, T.Tolla, C.Hongoro, E.O.Sekyere
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, HYGIENE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11360
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15316
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15316
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Makoae, T.Tolla, C.Hongoro, E.O.Sekyere
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, HYGIENE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11360
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15316
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15316
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Abstract
In South Africa, the government's earliest response to COVID-19 prioritised the protection of specific population groups and spaces. Children and young people in educational institutions were the first groups to have their main activity, school and tertiary learning, disrupted by the pandemic. One of the key interventions to curb the spread of the virus is the handwashing campaign, which is based on the Department of Health's National Hand Hygiene Behaviour Change Strategy 2016-2020.-
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