Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) technical guidance: Surveillance and case definitions

Global Surveillance for human infection with novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

This document provides guidance to Member States on implementation of global surveillance of 2019-nCoV. The objectives of this global surveillance are to monitor trends of the disease where human to human and/or zoonotic transmission occurs; rapidly detect new cases in countries where the virus is not circulating; provide epidemiological information to conduct risk assessment at the national, regional and global level; and provide epidemiological information to guide response measures.

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