Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste management for the COVID-19 crisis: interim guidance

Published 2020
Type Guidelines
Theme Disaster management
Language English
Pages: 9
Uploader Nadia Francisco
Publisher(s) World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Sector(s)
Location(s) All Countries
Author(s) WHO, UNICEF, Matt Arduino, David Berendes, Rick Gelting, Dr Thomas Handzel, Molly Patrick, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America; Lisa Casanova, Georgia State University, United States of America; David Cunliffe, SA Health, Australia; Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; Ana Maria de Roda Husman, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands; Peter Maes, Medecins Sans Frontiers, Belgium; Mark Sobsey, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, United States of America.
Disaster(s) Pandemic
Rights World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2020. Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.
Source: Water, Sanitation, hygiene and waste management for the COVID-19 crisis: interim guidance
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This document can also be found on the Official website of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at https://www.who.int.
This interim guidance summarizes WHO guidance on water, sanitation and health-care waste relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses. It is intended for water and sanitation practitioners and providers, and health-care providers who want to know more about water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) risks and practices.
This resource is part of a Collection of similar guidelines entitled "COVID-19: Guidelines and Policies on Waste Management", and it is included in the series of Collections supporting response to Covid-19 outbreak. Collections are monitored daily and new content is added.