Social implications of a change in the legal classification of COVID-19: The need for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and healthcare system strengthening

• Published in: Global Health & Medicine Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 75 - 77
• Main Author: Ohmagari, Norio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan National Center for Global Health and Medicine 30.04.2023
• Subjects: Policy Forum; public health; the Infectious Diseases Control Law; transmissibility of infection; the Infectious Diseases Control Law; public health; transmissibility of infection

In Japan, there has been a discussion of the potential reclassification of the novel coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) as an infectious disease under the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (the Infectious Diseases Control...