Thanks all for this, really great work.
Wanted to comment on the “COVID-19 case-based surveillance” program.
I would recommend that for cases where, in the “health outcome” stage, “death” is selected, there should be a next stage which is the same as the SMoL program which you previously developed (see https://who.dhis2.org/documentation/#cause-of-death) (or the COVID DHIS2 program should be linked to the SMoL Program if that is already in use to complete the medical certificate of cause of death for that individual). It will be very important to have correct medical certification of cause of death for all individuals who die from COVID-19 (certainly important to have correct medical certification of cause of death for all deaths) – it is not enough to know that the outcome was death, there needs to be a full medical certificate of cause of death. I would say, the link to the SMoL program should only be optional if the country is using another program / software to capture the medical certificate of cause of death (should be WHO 2016 form of medical certification of cause of death – see page 203 (Annexes section 7.1) of ICD volume 2 at https://icd.who.int/browse10/Content/statichtml/ICD10Volume2_en_2016.pdf?ua=1&ua=1).
Would be great if countries exploring the use of the COVID-19 DHIS2 Programs which are already using the SMoL Program could explore the link.
Thanks