Table 1 List of response strategies, public health measures and scope of interventions

Individual disease transmission

Individual measures

Hand washing, mask wearing, respiratory etiquette

Societal Interventions

Border control

Quarantine, fever screening, border closure

Community infection control measures

School closure, class dismissal, staggering, masks in public areas, social distancing, limitation of public transports, etc

Reducing secondary infections

Reduction of secondary infections

Implementation of guidelines about antibiotic therapy

Pneumococcal vaccination

People at risk

Level of care

Development of new ICU capacity

New ICU capacity

Implementation of life support equipment

Ventilators, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation equipment

Screening

Screening interventions

Virus testing

Immunization

Vaccination program targeting selected populations

Vaccination of Health professionals

Vaccination of general population