“ECDC encourages countries to transition from an emergency surveillance system to more sustainable and goal-oriented ones,” said a spokesperson for the organization.
After Spain put forward the idea of monitoring the covid-19 pandemic as if it were a common flu, a source from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) told the Spanish newspaper El País that the entity is evaluating the effectiveness of that country’s strategy and has already encouraged more countries to follow this approach.
