While focus is on vaccination, other strategies to fight pandemic ignored

The European Union had offered help to perform a seroprevalence study and strengthen surveillance and early warning systems a year ago but the government has not taken up the offer yet.

In May last year, the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division sought help to recruit 22 staff for polymerase chain reaction laboratories then in operation across the country in order to improve collection of personal data of those infected with the coronavirus.