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The virus continues on its unrelenting course throughout the world. With no vaccine likely to become available in the near future, public health measures are all that we have to fight it.  Premature relaxation of public health standards has resulted in renewed outbreaks.  The alternative is to allow the spread

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues its rampage throughout the world with 11.4 million cases and 540,000 deaths. The WHO estimates that 4.5% of confirmed cases will die and approximately 20% will require oxygen supplementation for low PaO2. Herd immunity. When a high proportion of a population are immune to a disease

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Tobacco is the largest single modifiable risk factor for chronic disease, killing almost 50% of those who become addicted to it.  There are 1.2 billion smokers in the world and some of the worst affected countries are in Asia. Efforts to discourage and restrict marketing have proved effective in reducing

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The classic public health response to an epidemic of a highly infectious disease that we teach in our Schools of Public Health is to: Develop a Case Definition. Since COVID19 symptoms overlap with other viral infections, e.g. upper respiratory tract infection, influenza. While ‘clinical suspicion’ is useful, it must be

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This week the World Health Assembly (WHA) held its annual meeting in Geneva – a virtual meeting for the first time. It was followed on Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board which is elected by the WHA. The WHO includes 190 member states, but unfortunately not Taiwan.

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COVID–19 is dominating our world at the present time. The Asia–Pacific Journal of Public Health (APJPH) Editorial Office is in Kuala Lumpur, which like many places in the world is under lockdown at present and our hard-working staff are working from their homes. The APJPH is published for APACPH by

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