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could we please circulate slides? very useful :)

Can we increase the uptake to >300 as more and more people are texting/calling to join ...

Hello

please ask the MOH, how much certain about the method of testing, limitation, attempts to train to decrease false negative...

Don't you think segregating quarantined people based on their risk level in order to reduce number of cases coming from quarantined contacts

we are trying to increase capacity to more than 300

What measures are being taken to prevent imported cases from Somalia and Djibouti?

Hello Organizers, I would appreciate if you make sure that we ill get a copy of the presentations.

Are we tracking increased mortality? Increased reports of ARI across the country?

To all speakers, until we increase our capacity, please do not log off! as you my may not be allowed back due to capacity.

why screening is so high in two regions and not to the others?

My question to Dr. Lia; is our country using PCR or any rapid test kits are there for testing suspected individuals. I am asking this because our testing capacity has increased these days

house to house survey, is it using antibody test or Rt-Pcr?

Great job. Can we also quarantine/test truck drivers retrurning from Djibouti,flight crews,AND hotel workers at quarantine hotels before they return to community from their work places?

I thank you and appreciate your effort so far ........Sensitivity and specificity of testing, limitation, train to decrease false negative... How we are monitoring this for quality results?

This is Dr. Solomon Gebru please share with everyone through peopleTopeople the presentations Thank you for organizing this important informative session

can the host facilitate CT/MRI for atypical cases(chronic asymptomatic shedders)

any plan on sever acute malnutrition, food insecurity, and refuges handeling

thank you for organizing this meeting ...very useful. question: What measures are done for returnes from abroad? and just a suggestion Webex can accommodate upto 1000 participants and safe to use than zoom.

Her Excellency; increasing the diagnostics centers and also using addition option other than RT-PCR will increase the access to the community. as of April 21,2020 more than 550 COVID-19 tests were introduced and approved by different authorities. So we have around 314 GeneXpert machines in the country and we need to use them for COVID-19. I know it was initiated but it should be a focus point cause these machines were distributed in more than 281 health facilities in the country.

Do you think the number of testing being conducted so far may substantiate the case detection rate it would be otherwise? Gizachew from EMLA

is the use of mask mandatory in public places? if is is why it is not enforced( it is visible and easy to enforce)

is there any plan to use antibody related test?

Thank you!!

what is the limitation to enforce social distancing in public places

Thank you so much Dr Lia for an informative status update on the COVID response!

Thank you Dr Lia for excellent work. Testing positivity is a bit lower than other countries. Do we have a quality control mechanism from sample collection to testing?

what method are using to test ? what is your daily capacity ? is any of you site using a high output instruments to test COVID such as Cepheid , Roche Cobas instruments

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Dr Gudina, please mute your mic!

would you please mute your microphone except the presentor ?

Please manage the noise behind the presenter

People need to mute themselves...a lot of background noises

The host can mute everyone

Dear HM Dr LT, Considering the very low positivity rate among tested, very low suspected cases from millions of house to house screening, and very precarious socio economic condition of the country to sustain sort of lock down measures; don't you think this is the time to think of concrete exit strategy? I think so.

Not numbers but interpretation in light of contexts! Useful point.

As prevention is the key strategy ,we have to focus more on high risk areas and people like airport,,hotels,,border entry routes and as well as index case areas---and quarantine and test them away from big cities before they mix with community.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52283748?prompt

Given that there are specific factors to each locality such as rural-verus Urban, how can a national projection is possible and reliable?

Thank you Dr Lia for your steadfast leadership and the excellent update you provided. We are always by your side.

when (at what stage of infection) and how would transmission happens from A to B?

Thank you your excellency for the great overview of COVID19 situation in Ethiopia .Are there work restrictions for health care workers with underlying health conditions and also pregnant women who are at higher risk from COVID19

Her Excellency and Dr. Alemayehu: How, and to what extent weather/climate does come into play in the infectivity of COVID-19?If temperature and humidity are determinants of COVID-19 transmission and survival; So, will there be a possibility for waves of COVID-19 outbreak in the central and northwestern parts of Ethiopia where Kiremt is the principal rainy season?Can we use the prediction of climate models, satellite information, and clinical and public health data to develop statistical models to analyze and demonstrate the feasibility of COVID-19 prediction ahead of the season?Is the environmental/weather/climate aspect of COVID-19 a part of the research initiative mobilized by the Ethiopian public health association and the Ministry of Health?Thank you!

Thank you so much Dr. Lia and all for such great job and very useful networking at national and global level involving great experts and experienced professionals.

Congratulations for todays Negative result

Thank you Dr Lia for your excellent presenation.

For some questions

How do we are assure the modeling \/projection is truly reflect the pandemic COVID-19 situation

Thank you Dr.Lia. what are the main challenges, further needs of the country in the preparedness for COVID? If you can also mention about the preparation related to health care workers and PPE. thank you

Basic reproduction number is the number of people who get infected from 1 index case assuming all the population is susceptible... Elias Siraj

question for Dr Lia 1) How many test so far are done from the community infection without any link with incoming travelers? 2) For each community infection identified, how many contacts are traced and tested? 3) Do you have the mechanism and manpower to do contact tracing all over the country? 4) Have you thought of using medical , nursing, public health students, in a form of campaign to go to all over the country and do public health work including contact tracing, education and isolation 5) How do you explain the current infection numbers be low in Ethiopia when we see infection rising at exponential rate in other countries who has the first infection at the same time as we had our first infection in Ethiopia? do you think your strategy of contact tracing and isolation working or any other variables in our case?

Ro for influenza is usually 1.5 ish and it leads to big epidemics

Ro 2-3 of COVId is much higher than flu when taking exponential growth into consideration

Q to Prof. Alemayehu. is it not important to consider in the assumption the existing trend and capacity of testing for SARS COV-2 ?

Regarding basic Reproductive number (Ro) and effective reproductive (Re) number that are different should be differentiated, Basic Ro is not changeable so don't consider Ro =2.6 and Ro=1.5 etc

Thank you, Dr. Lia

Dear HE Dr Lia for you excellent overview presentation. Including Real time reporting technologies like GxAlert and ASPECT which are already developed for COVID-19 in the national plan and using it real time testing reports with out manual entry.

To answer some questions on testing, we are using only RT-PCR for testing. As of today, testing capacity has become 4543.

Excellent presentation H.E Dr.Lia

The fact that we are slowly moving to rainy season and current rain may have to be taken in to consideraitons

Yes Prof. Alemayehu - Perhaps regional project may provide much better picture

Also, be aware that the projection do not get activated until there is a community transmission which will be the trigger

This is to Dr. Lia1. How are we managing those in remission? they may still be transmitting2. Are we using these drugs Chloroquine and Azitromycin, we have read some reports they help some patients , reports from china, SK, France and US. What is our experience?3. So far our patients, most of them didn't need intensive care support, what made our patients different? could it be their age or what do you think is the reason?Thank you

Thank you so much Dr Lia for your hard work and excellent presentation. Would insulating high risk areas help further including big cities?

Have any of the assumptions going into modelling taken into account the young age ie. possibility that the % severe/critical may be lower than the 20% of countries with older populations?

In addition to regional projection, rural urban specific project will help for proper interventions.

we hear reports of positive cases who are not isolated, and with no travel history. that means transmission in the community.how are you catching those cases, how was it reported to you. Are the community members self reporting?

How abut treating COVID cases with Azthromycine and choloquine as additional preventive strategy?

Currently regions are doing house to house search for suspected cases. Given the shortage of logistics(PPEs) and other practical reasons, is HH case finding feasible, safe and effective? Especially when PPEs are needed by health workers. if we are not equipping people going house to house with necessary PPEs, they may be infected or transmit the virus. In order to understand the extent of the spread of the virus, WHO recommends to conduct testing in surveillance sites ( in our case in selected health facilities on people with flue like symptoms, pneumonia and severe acute respiratory syndrome). I didn't find countries doing house to house search on my quick search.

No evidence of decreasing mortality after chloroquine treatment

Thank You Prof

Thank you Proff. Alemayehu.

Wonderful Presentation and Thank you Proff. Alemayehu

Thanks Prof Alemayehu for a very good presentation!

Thank you prof Alemayehu for excellent presentation

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu

Prof Alemayehu, Excellent Presentation. Wondwossen

Thanks Professor

Thank you prof Alemayehu for excellent presentation

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu for your nice presentation

H.E Dr Lia L, Thank you for nice presentation. allowing public transport to Region / rural side do not think, this will not increase diseases transmission more regions ? Does we have clear evidence no community transmission? Thank you all

Thank you Dr. Lia and Prof. Alemayehu for wonderful presentations! very informative!!

Thank you Professor Alemayehu for the great presentation.

Question for Proff. Alemayehu … In which scenario Ethiopia is now operating among the 6 scenarios presented?

Can you a bit louder?

Thank you professor Alemayehu for the nice presentation

Dear H.E Dr. Lia, thank you for the hard work. My question to you, test kits are nowadays a concern for sensitivity and specificity. are we trusting the companying producing the kits or do we have a capacity to check them at same level here in Ethiopia? thanks

For Prof. Alemayehu. Could you please tell us if you looked at the projected weekly hospitalization rates under the different scenarios instead of the cumulative projection just to understand how much work is needed towards the nation's ICU bed capacity?

A bit louder please

Thanks prof for the nice presentation!

Thank you for your excellent presentation Prof. Alemayehu.

Sharing my experience with regard to clinical care. There is no double blind, randomized clinical trial completed so far to give us a definite answer about any specific drug therapy, however there are some anecdotal reports about some benefit of remdesvir, IL-6 antagonists and some promise regarding convalescence serum. No benefit so far from chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or azithromycin despite wide spread use.

Good morning. Would you please ask the Minister why there are so many disparities in the regions. What is the impact of this? The slides H.E. showed under stragegy #1.

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu for sharing the pragmatic resource

I think the assumptions should consider to what extent prevention interventions are implemented at operational level as well

Thank you Prof Alemayehu for your intresting oresentation

Is there a way the model addresses current transmission rate?

Many thanks Prof. Almayehu

I think region and sub region specific modeling is more worthy...

thanks all organizers, facilitators and Presents

Thank you for an excellent webinar and very good presentations! Does anyone know the ICU capacity in Ethiopia (ICU beds per capita)?

The modeling must be performed by geographical distribution

Heavy Use of China's data may not give accurate information due to lack of transparency and question about the reliability of the data

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu for the big work.

Keep in mind that the china data was not taken as is... was age adjusted + additional adjustment to take Ethiopian situation into consideration...

How does epidemiologic projections work without considering seasonality of the virus and the effect of harm weather on viral transmission?

How do you measure effective implementation of social distancing?

The Ministry has to aggressively promote the use of face mask by the general public.

Dr. Amir is facemask consider 25% effectiveness?

Too many assumptions, how can one measure and quantify the implementation of mitigation measures which are used heavily as input for projection modeling

question: Do you have a testing rate for Bahirdar, Gondar, wollo, Tigray

why are we not taking into consideration of lock down of some places not the whole country? or are we equating social distancing with lock down?

Bahir Dar. Mekelle, Gondar are in the 400 K category...

1) Now we know the case fatality rate from China is underestimated2) Given that the Ethiopian census is very old, the population estimate of cities like Addis is way too low as the population projections based on that census doesn’t adequately factor in immigration appropriately

okay Thanks Dr Siraj

why handwashing which is critical prevention mechanism is not include din the assumption. And face masking is unrealistic to rural communities

please comment that all these will be nothing without intervention When?now without affecting the economy which is impossible without more collateral damage

@Solomon Feyissa: I have the same concern regarding environmental aspect COVID-19, and the possibility of incorporating climate parameter for seasonal projection. Please take a look my questions which I presented to Dr. Lia and Dr. Alemayehu.

Suggest use of physical distancing instead of social distancing

we highly promoted hand washing and hand sanitization. why not considered it in the modeling?

for both presenters; I would appreciate if you have included "staying home" as assumption

physical distancing is better than social distancing

Social distancing is a misused concept considering the Ethiopian cultural context. Translated into local language, social distancing becomes unacceptable. So we need a consistent use of the term "Physical distancing"

Excellent presentations Dr Amir!

Knowing that Social distancing is an effective intervention why not focusing just that for Ethiopia

Excellent work and presentation. Cloth based face mask is the way to go.

Very informative

Excellent work

Thank you Dr Amir

Good news to see masks can go a long way and provide an alternative to restrictions which are quite painful for our type of economy

One of the problem with the assumptions have to do with how to enforce this given the Ethiopia we know in its different faces

Thank you Dr Amir, that was Terrific!

thanks Dr Amir

Thank you Dr Amir

thank you for the organizations and Ethiopia COVID-19 team? what type of need do you have from lab/COVID testing ?

How does this reach to the right ear?

Thank you Dr. Amir for your excellent presentation

Excellent job team!

Question for Dr Amir...what kind of face maek considered in your scenario?

have we tried to check r0 to ethiopian setting from cases that were detected from non quarantine setting. because using international r0 might not tell u local reproduction rate (environment, genetic and way of life is different). in other word what do you think is the r0 for ethiopia so far

As a person practicing medicine in the USA, I see significant seasonal pattern of respiratory viral disease transmission so I'm very skeptical about any model which doesn't take in to account weather and seasonality of respiratory viral infections

Let me ask a layman question: Did the projection consider intense social interactions going on in open markets and also cash exchanges in banks and public transportations?

Thank you, Dr. Amir

Is it possible to get the ppt?

very informative dr Amir; thanks you

Thank you Dr Amir, it was a great work.

is that possible to estimate transmission rate for Asymptomatic mild, severe cases separately?

please could you share us all materials includes Chinese health team presentation

Face masking in rural Ethiopia, among the pro-poor, effective handwashing practices, age-specific mortality variation bn rural and urban residence,....many factors should be put into the models.???

Do you all think current mitigation measures are sufficient? Is there a scope for more?

Great work, very convincing and thank you Dr Lia for a very sound, thoughtful approach. Question regarding the timing of interventions: you mentioned these should start at the start of sustained community transmission. In the absence of evidence that that has happened, what is the impact of having implemented some of the measures (ie. risk of starting too early) + any sense yet of the collateral damage? Already hearing of empty hospitals and lack of essential medical care out of fear.

Face masking is more effective in urban... where social distancing is a challenge in Ethiopia setting.

Why hand washing is missed as highly important in our context? We know this very low in our senario. But why we relay only on this three. Even some are difficult to measure in our context. Good to think various factors.....

Thank you for the presentations, have the models taken into consideration Hand washing interventions?

For organizers, it would be helpful for some health healthcare providers to share their first hand experience with regard to COVID-19 clinical management. Too much emphasis given on the illusive modeling

My quick question for Dr Lia and the presenters, Where do you think are we in terms of the transmission scenario? community transmission established or not yet? which strategy do you think you consider for out setting: Mitigation- so that infections continue to occur but reduce the imact on the healthcare system and allow herd immunity to build. OR suppression- strict control now and prepare for a bigger wave later???

Disinfection was done on roads....how this mitigation helps? can it be included in the models?

Dear Dr. Amir, thank you for the excellent work and presentation. using SEIR model for this epidemics, can we see the compartments between susceptibility and exposure, where there is no any clinical symptoms at the stage of exposure, but they do spread the disease unlike the suscep. This is against the assumption of the SEIR model. So, shouldn't we need to rely on the infected and recovered one in this case, that my inquire to look for another differential models, that currently gets strong support. Thank you again,

Fully agree Prof - basic assumptions are based on estimates based on data from other country. So, in as useful this numbers are it is imperative to recognize the limitaitons.

can we have the slides please? they will be really helpful

Dear Dr. Amir

There is uncertainty about the effectiveness about non-medical use of facemasks. Norway for example, did a systematic review and did not reccomend scale-up of facemasks for the general population. Is it possible to test scale-up of facemasks in Ethiopia as an

…as a trial/cluster rct?

Can someone from Ethiopia share their experience with regard to seasonality of respiratory infections?, does continuous surveillance of such diseases exist? is there any testing/viral swab screening for viral infections? with many unanswered questions we could be just walking blind folded.

The terminology face mask must be qualified, it’s been used in its general terms but always good to see efficacy in medical facilities as opposed to general public

when do we say community transmission is established? what are the metrics and thresholds?

I think strong epidemiological analysis is needed to accurately understand the viral spread in different geographic areas/countries, very misleading to assume similar spread for countries with different climates/weather. I strongly believe tropical countries will have a different viral spread than temperate climates with colder winter seasons.

Thank you all presenters

Thank you all presenters.

this is very true Prof yemane the use of face mask and or social distancing should be strengthened

Thank you all

"Prolongation" ? until heard immunity achieved or to postpone the apex

Thank you Prof. Yemane for the excellent summayyou all presenters.

what happens to the economy when we prolong the pandemic

I fully agree - we shouldn't spend any more time arguing on models. We need to move with this with caution. I suggest this one to be published as it may trigger others to think through on modeling using this one as a reference

Thank you all

''Deliberate..."?????

How much does the 83% rural setting protective to the potential effect of the pandemic

Q. For the specific places like D/Dawa, I believe that place specific projection has to be done due to the nature of variation in transmission dynamics. What do you say ?

Thank you Prof Yemane for excellent presentation.

Thank you all presenter.

Very nice and informative

Many thanks to all the presenters

decreasing panic among health workers is very important, we need to push that

Thank all for excellent presentation

thank you prof yemena

Excellent and insightful presentation Prof Yemane!

thank you Prof. Yemane

Thank you for the sound interpretation, Dr. Yemane.

sure! this must be taken in to considerations. thanks for nice brife you give us!

Thank you, Prof Yemane

Thank you all honorable presenters for the excellent presentation

Thanks Ambassador

Thank you Professor Yemane for the great presenation. very informative!

Thank you prof Yemane. I like the summary in the last slide

Thank you all for nice presentation

Excellent presentations

Thank you All presenters

Hello, I think the EPHI should organize online training for researchers on "statistical methods of modeling & projections", so that everyone in the universities and research institutes can do the local projections.

Thank you Dr Yemane for an excellent and thought provocative presentation. We need to push for the implementation of the SOE.

the coffee/ buna shops every where, the small restaurants, the small trades at the community, which looks very difficult to change...

Thanks to all presenters!

Thank you Prof. Yemane for the wonderful summery and direction.

Dear all I thank you for the contribution you did so far to help and support public health sector in our country in this critical situation that the nation of the world are in general and our nation in particular . #Covid -19

I would like to thank all the presenters for their excellent presentations

In developed countries with temperate weather there is a surveillance system for respiratory illness usually activated when the colder weather started in late fall through winter and until early spring and stops in late spring and the summer, basically following seasonal pattern following weather changes. In addition to the surveillance of respiratory illness and viral swab screen is performed to check for around 20 viruses which gives public health officials a good ideas about the overall picture with regard to respiratory infections so that it would be easier if something new pops up like a new epidemic/outbreak

Al models are wrong but some models are useful. Model parameters are mostly uncertain & cannot be validated. Prof Yemane is right we shouldn't dwell on the accuracy of the model.

Thank you all the presenters for the wonderful presentations. Would love to get the slides.

Thank you to H.E Dr Lia and all the presenters , what would Dr Lia mention as the biggest challenge for the COVID response in ETh

The sons of Mr. Siraj are doing great job. Thanks a lot.

thank you for the wonderful presentations , pls upload the webinar.

thank you all for the excellent presentaion

What an informative presentations by the experts and summary by Prof. Yemane.

Thank you Prof. Alemayehu and Dr. Amir for nicely presenting models. Thank you prof. Yemane for excellent interpretation.

very well prepared and organized webinar! very informative.

Thank you all presenters for excellent presentations. This incidence might be a case to see the importance of leading from where we are and working together.

thank you all for Excellent presentations. As there will be prolonged epidemic; do you think the mitigation /prevention efforts would have started later, once community transmission established and sustained for longer period (7weeks or so) rather than what we did (with no community transmission)?

Thank you all for the presentations. can we also have a few comments on what our hospital admission and discharge criteria should be in Ethiopia's setups. in other countries mild case have been treated at home and patients admitted for moderate COVID have been discharged after finishing medications and when symptom free.what standards are we going to be using in regards to the treatment of COVID patients.

thank you for the presentation but what is the advise to the government of ethiopia for the poor implementations and response of lockdowns?

Thank you prof. Yemane

we love to get those slides

Thank you all for the excellent presentation!

Thank you Profs Alemayehu, Yemane, Dawud and all other presenters for making such extraordinarily wonderful presentations.

Thank you all very informative

Really great move forward and highly encouraging presentations from all. Thank you very much !!

good in placing strong law enforcement to achieve stated assumption.

Thank you Prof. Yemane and all the presenters, excellent work from everyone. I think we need to really consider the impact of this epidemic on other health issues. Need team to be organized and see this aspect and advise leadership

thanks all presenters for excellent presentations

Dear all the presenters, Thank you for the presentations and I think the issue here is how are we going to communicate such kind huge projections to the public.

Thank you so much Dr. Amir and Prof. Yemane for your presentations. My question is, when do we anticipate local epidemic to hit any part of the country. i.e Addis Ababa?

Addis Ababa Mortality Surveillance project base don 60-70 cemetries

It is running for the last many years

a thousand a day?

Target is 4500 per day

Dear all presenters, Thank you for the most interactive and informative presentations. Monitoring SRI morbidity and mortality is great. But, also advised from experts in the US monitoring hospitalisation rate will help us plan and execute resources, not to exceed the hospital or isolation centre capacities.

it would be great if MOH establish platform to track community death since due to low health facilities utilization it might underestimated

do u think there is community transmission at this point

excellent job you tested Mekedonia !!!

thank you so much all for the amazing presentations.

Thank you all for your contribution to save the lives of your brothers and sisters! Keep the good work!👌

Great job on testing high risk population groups like Mekedonia.

The test shouldn't be a one time action perhaps findings may change with time

Can we consider the complete lock down of Diredewa city?

What is the plan to engage private health facilities in testing and treating COVID-19?

I am really satisfied. Thank you Dr. Lia

What about the health facilities on people with unknown cuase of pneumonia and severe respiratory disease? Health facilities are good starting points as suspected COVID19 cases wil come to health facilities

Well responded, Dr. Lia

I don't handwashing can be captured in a model.

So far one of the labs testing is a private lab. We plan to engage more which already have RT-PCR machines

Global trends show cases start to double within the first one month after detecting the 100th case. However this does not seem the case here. Why do think the trajectory in Ethiopia is taking a different course compared to Asia, Europe and the US?

Q to MoH/EPHI: Are we repeating the test if required because the test can miss in detecting considerable amount of the already infected ones? Or once negative, negative forever?

Our hero Dr Lia well addressed

I have bunch of papers, I can share it with you?????

how do you think of the WHO report about ''the worst is yet to come for Africa'' ?

To: Dr. Alemayehu - how did you account for age in your model ? especially in estimating case fatality rate. Being a young population, COVID19 related mortality could be much lower in Ethiopia.

The major mode of transmission is Contact; and the major NPI intervention is around that. Hence, must be considered any way

Thanks all great presentation and discussion .....reminder it is both social and physical distancing remember we are telling people to avoid social events ...

Do we have any exposed population group? we didn't hear any special group of people so far with more exposure to contract the disease than others

We monitor 620 people from different services (Market, Bank, Taxi, Hotels, Bus, Health centers, on Street cross); 28% hand haygine, 38% physical distance, 18% use of mask in Addis Ababa by AAU. We monitor every week

Question to MoH - is there an operating assumption as to what explains the low infection rate in Ethiopia vs. the global index?

How are the recovered cases join the community? Do they stay 14 days after the test is negative? Is there any guide line for home care ?

To: Dr. Alemayehu - - Did you take account of population density in your model ? some models used population density to create scenarios on social distancing

yes we did in the second projections for differetn localities.

Hello Prof Dawd, could you/others please share some thoughts on ethical dilemma in handling suspects and confirmed cases, and privacy issues around disclosure of private socio-demo and health information. Tx

How are we balancing the essential health services provision with COVID-19 response. I think COVID-19 is propagated across the world and country and masked the essential health services. The price from other health problems may outweigh the COVID-19 in Ethiopia

To hon. minister and everyone. we need support and encourage the community-based surveillance initiative in both rural and urban areas which is underway with more resources and focussed investment. we can mitigate the effect Vovid-19 very effectively and as early as possible.

Please feel free to share papers and other resources. Thanks

thank you so much all. very informative. may God give you more wisdom and protect our country.

what plan do you have to educate the people from other regions out of Addisababa about covid 19 transmission and prevention? people think the information they got from media national TV are all the cases are from people who travelled abroad

Thank you all, organizers and hon. presenters, it was a great and informative webinar

so we are not traveling and should be safe and don’t need to practice the guide line

What is the rationale to resume public transportation from Addis to the rest of the country at this time? And would you comment on imposing a rule of odd/event plate numbers in Addis?

This kind of intellectual discussions should continue and thank you to organizers and presenters

To Dr. Lia, are people in quarantine segregated by their risk level?

Right communication choice of words and education and information dissemination should at the local level

who r those people who r reported to have high risk job that predispose them to infection. how are you tracing them.

Thank you Dr LIa and other presenters. This was most informative. The challenges are huge, but the opportunity to re-inforce the public hospitals and quality of care overall, are really there, now. Would you consider creating a task force to actually start strategizing and planning Horizontal improvements, that are affordable and will have impact on the overall health

Great presentations and explanations. Thank you all for making this to happen. It would be great to have similar arrangements continuously. Stay Safe and Take Care.

Thanks very much

Hi Prof Yeman/Dr. Alemyehu, there is one modelling exercise that specifically focuses on the population of Addis Ababa. It is based on a SEIR model and differential equations. You may want to review it at your convenience.

What is the protocol for releasing a covid patient? we are seeing negative patients retested and coming up positive? is the false negative rate of 40 % accounted for in your modeling?

thank u.

How are the leadership of the health sector and other sectors intending to juggle response to CoVID-19, maintaining essential services and reportedly emerging epidemics of measles and yellow fever in SNNP region?

I wonder, if Dr. Liya can give as a highlight on the implementation of the quarantine and its relation with the acquiring the infection during their period at the center.

how it account the probability of transmission for asymptotic, mild and severe in the model please ?

Thank you Dr. Alemayehu

Question to Dr. Lia: How transparent is the government in disclosing test results?

please ask lia her protocol for releasing covid patients back to the community

Thank you all, our minster, all the presenters and the moderator. It is well done!

Thank you all for the comments and questions. I will try to answer questions and forward to the organizers.

Thank you Dr Lia, great response. Good to take our Djibouti border seriously. It could give us a problem going forward.

Thanks for arrangement and nice discussion. 1. Good to compile data on clinical presentation and progress for 116 participants so far and share for clinicians and surveillance team in different regions

WHO and MoH/EPHI updating and following on this

I don't think house to house screening is a good idea. Has never been done any where in the world so can any one share the public case benefit of such a measure. Contact tracing should be strengthened but house to house screening is unhelpful for such kind of problem

well done EPHI?MOH

Thank you so much for an excellent presentations! The fact that corona virus can stay on surfaces for varied time, what are some of the precautionary measures for sanitation workers/ solid waste collectors?

Thank you everyone. We are in this together regardless of where we live. So glad to see such level of collaboration is heart warming 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

Excellent contact tracing

This is very informative data visualization on contacts. This demonstrates third generation infection Prof Yemane was alluding to

Superb pages by Dr Sinte

Excellent contact tracing!

our hero Dr.Lia

Thanks so much to all presenters. This has given me great confidence in the Government of Ethiopia and the collective efforts to mitigate against risks related to COVID....God bless.

Excellent Dr. Lia and Dr. Sintayehu and all presenters. Wonderful session.

Very impressive tracing.

an encouraging contact tracing!

Excellent contact tracing - thanks Sente for sharing.

Excellent webinar, Thank you all!!

I have seen an excellent job from Dr. Sintayehu`s slide...thank you so much all

BRAVO

thanks you Dr.Liya for the hard work!

thank you

Reassuring to see our minister Dr Lia on top of her game

I'm grateful to be living in Ethiopia and not my home country (USA:)

Thank you, H.E. Dr. Lia, presenters and organisers for the wonderful work so far and your enlightenment.

Came late to the meeting (due to high demand). Very interesting

Thank you Dr. Sintayehu

Excellent concluding remark Dr. Lia. Together we can win

Excellent webinar. Thank you ALL!

Great job Prof. Dawd!!

Regarding the 3 generations with the Japanese patient, some what concerning but it is not sustained... it was stopped by contact tracing. The total numbers also matter. So my take, not enough to say community transmission.

This has been very informative. Thank you H.E. Dr. Lia, thank you all!

Thank you all. Excellent presentation and discussion

Very informatve seminar. Thank you to all the presenters.

Thanks All!

Enforce face mask use by the public

Thank you all.

Excellent webinar. please think having another one soon

Thank you excellent presentations

Really impressive work. Yagere Lijoch

thank you all!

Thank you

Thanks, for everyone, very helpful for us

Thank you for very informative meeting.

Thank you all

Thank you , Dr Enawgaw and Dr Libyan and all wonderful Organizers

Thanks a million!

Thank you for an excellent t session. Look forward for more.

Thank you very much

Excellent webinar. We should continue collaborative efforts like this!

great job

Thank you all

It was very nice session and thank you!!

thank you so much

Thank You all

thanks all!

Great!!

THANK YOU

Thank you all!!!

Thank you

great job team!

Thank you all!!

Thank you all for the nice presentation and discussion.

Thanks a lot, quite informative!

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Thank you all

thank you

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Thank you very much!

Tewabech Bishaw Thank You all very much. Keep up the spirit and the Diaspora local partnership!

Thank you. Great work!

excellent !! thank you all!

thank you

Thank you so Much!

Thanks to organizers and Dr Lia

This Berhanu from Botswana. it was informative event. pl keep it up.