On 20 May 2021, SECID hosted the “Annual Meeting of SEE Countries on Influenza and COVID Surveillance Activities”.The aim of the meeting was to present the challenges of maintaining influenza surveillance during COVID -19 pandemic and how the existing influenza surveillance systems were used during this pandemic.

The main objectives were to:

“Annual Influenza Workshop” was organized on 10 February, at National Institute Of Public Health, Kosovo*. Participants from sentinel sites, epidemiologist, infectologist, pediatrician, specialist from IUC,  pulmonologist, GP, and representatives of NIC where gathered   to retrain/ refresh influenza focal points from all ARI, ILI, SARI sentinel sites on influenza surveillance, sample collection and transport, data management  and outbreak response.  

Find out the latest update from six CORDS (where SECID is part), regional infectious disease surveillance networks in February 2021 Newsletter; Please Click on the link below: