Branch : Research and Development
Impact Area: Water quality and health
Programme 3: Institutional and management issues
Title : Expression of interest (EOI) call for a national programme for monitoring covid-19 spread in communities using a water and sanitation-based approach
ToR ID : 1009803
Contact Email Address covid19@wrc.org.za
Closing Date : 01 June 2020
The current Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation
(WHO). COVID-19 is caused by the novel zoonotic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that was isolated in Wuhan, China
in January 2020. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the family of Coronavirus whose members include SARS-CoV and
MERS-CoV viruses that are responsible for outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle
East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
