บทเรียนจากการป้องกันและควบคุมการระบาดของโควิด-19: กรณีศึกษาเทศบาลเมืองอ่างทอง

Rungtiwa Makim; Thitikorn Topothai; Chompoonut Topothai

Authors

Rungtiwa Makim Division of Public Health and Environment, Angthong Municipality
Thitikorn Topothai International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health; Division of Physical Activity and Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health
Chompoonut Topothai International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health; Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health

Keywords:

prevention and control, Covid-19, municipality, Angthong, lessons learnt

Abstract

The world is in the grip of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic. Since it was first identified in Wuhan, a city in China at the end of 2019, the disease has rapidly spread to countries around the world. This pandemic is likening to occur once in a century. In Thailand, there were 3,000 accumulative cases from 68 out of 77 provinces. This article reviewed the essence of COVID-19 prevention and control activities by Angthong municipality in Angthong province from 1 February to 12 May 2020 that led Angthong as 1 out of 9 provinces that had no provincial inhabitants infected. The aim of the study was to understand COVID-19 prevention and control highlighting collaboration of community-level stakeholders. Lessons learnt from this study provided an insight on Angthong provincial disease control committee mechanism, the arts of implementation of Angthong municipality, importance of local leadership, and dynamic of daily life shifting of local people for further development on disease control policy at both local and national levels.

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