Thread by @WHO

Updated #COVID19 clinical guidance covers:
🔹Early case recognition
🔹Guidance for care of children, pregnant women, adults & older people
🔹Managing cases
🔹Infection prevention & control
🔹Sample collection & an update on investigational therapeutics
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#Breastfeeding helps protect infants from infectious diseases.
Infants born to mothers with suspected or confirmed #COVID19 should be fed according to standard infant feeding guidelines, while applying necessary precautions for infection prevention & control

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Mothers with #COVID19 symptoms who are #breastfeeding or practising skin-to-skin contact should practise:
🔹Respiratory hygiene, incl. during feeding
🔹Hand hygiene before & after contact with a child
🔹Routinely clean & disinfect surfaces which they have been in contact with

#Breastfeeding counselling, basic psychosocial support & practical feeding support should be provided to all pregnant women & mothers with infants & young children, whether or not they are suspected or confirmed to have #COVID19 bit.ly/2QhIkkB

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When severe illness prevents a mother with #COVID19 or other complications from caring for her infant or continuing direct #breastfeeding, they should be encouraged & supported to express milk & safely provide breastmilk, with appropriate infection prevention & control measures

Parents/caregivers who may need to be separated from their children, and children who may need to be separated from their primary caregivers, should have access to appropriately trained health or non-health workers for #MentalHealth & psychosocial support.

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