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Global News New courses and languages available We are pleased to announce three new courses which have recently become available on OpenWHO: Flutool Plus - using the WHO Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Costing Tool: The aim of this course is to promote the dissemination and use of Flutool Plus, the WHO tool designed to help lower- and middle-income countries in the process of costing of Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programs. Standard precautions: Hand hygiene: This course has been prepared to help summarize the WHO guidelines on hand hygiene, associated tools and ideas for effective implementation. Drug-resistant tuberculosis: how to interpret rapid molecular test results: This training toolkit by the European Laboratory Initiative for TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis provides a unique combination of practical guidance and expert advice on the interpretation of selected WHO-endorsed tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). COVID-19 resources available in more languages The platform now has a total of 61 resources for COVID-19 spread across 21 languages, the newest being Bengali, Polish and Urdu, with many more in the pipeline. The most recent translations include: ePROTECT Respiratory Infections in Arabic Country preparedness and response in Arabic Introduction to COVID-19 and emerging respiratory viruses in Bengali SARI Treatment Facility Design in Italian IPC for COVID-19 in Polish SARI Treatment Facility Design in Russian Introduction to COVID-19 and emerging respiratory viruses in Urdu New certificates available Participants can now gain a Record of Achievement if they score 80% or higher on the assessments in the following courses: ePROTECT Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian and Portuguese. Russian and Spanish to follow. Introduction to COVID-19 and emerging respiratory viruses in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese and Russian. More languages to follow. Complete list of COVID-19 learning resources In summary, OpenWHO currently offers courses covering the following topics and languages to support the response to COVID-19: A general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses (available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Hungarian, Indian Sign Language, Indonesian, Macedonian, Persian, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Urdu); Clinical care SARI (available in English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese and Vietnamese); Health and safety briefing for respiratory diseases – ePROTECT (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian and Portuguese); IPC for COVID-19 (available in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian and Turkish); COVID-19 operational planning guidelines and partners platform to support country preparedness and response (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Russian and Portuguese); SARI treatment facility design (available in Arabic, English, Italian, Portuguese and Russian); An introduction to Go.Data (available in English and coming soon in additional languages); How to put on and remove PPE for COVID-19 (available in English and coming soon in additional languages); and Standard precautions for hand hygiene (available in English and coming soon in additional languages). Best wishes, OpenWHO team OpenWHO Web: https://openwho.org Mail: outbreak.training@who.int