The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday came up with a roadmap for declaring Covid-19 an endemic disease.

The initial aim is to ensure:

• Easy, efficient public access to treatment with fatality rate lower than 0.1 per cent
• More than 60 per cent of the population given booster shots
• Building public awareness on handling and adapting Covid-19 from pandemic to endemic safely

• The measures will be further separated into four aspects, namely:

  Public Health

• Hastening the administration of booster shots
• Changing the monitoring system so it focuses on Covid-19 clusters and pneumonitis patients
• Easing prevention measures for tourists
• Changing measures for isolation and quarantining of people

• Medical

• Changing treatment guidelines for outpatients
• Treating patients with severe symptoms or those at risk of developing severe symptoms including long Covid

• Legal and Society

• Managing the legal aspects for every organisation in the post-pandemic era
• Easing social measures that control travel and large gatherings
• Getting every sector to support Universal Prevention and Covid-free Setting

• Communication and public relations

• Building knowledge and understanding for every sector and changing people’s behaviour so they can live with Covid-19 safely
• Making proactive, comprehensive information available to build public understanding and cooperation

• Operation timeline

• Combatting (level 4): March 12 to early April
• Plateau (level 3): April to May
• Decline (level 2): End of May to June
• Post-pandemic (level 1): July 1 onwards

The Nation