National guideline for strengthening evidence generation on COVID-19

Abstract

On 30th January, WHO declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, due to COVID-19, initial infections detected in Wuhan in China On 11th March2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a “pandemic". As of 24th May 2020, around 5,429,185 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 with 344,444 deaths and 2,259,877 recoveries have been reported severely affecting United States of America (USA), Brazil, Russia, Spain and United Kingdom with few thousand cases and few deaths in other countries. In Nepal, the first case was reported on 23rd January 2020. The cases of COVID-19 have increased logarithmically in the last three weeks, with 1572 cases, 220 recoveries and eight deaths as of 31st May 2020.