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SORMAS - Implementation of SORMAS in Switzerland

  • Funded by Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Kanton Luzern, Kantonsarztamt Kanton Bern
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021

  • Funder

    Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Kanton Luzern, Kantonsarztamt Kanton Bern

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof. Kaspar Wyss

  • Research Location

    Switzerland

  • Lead Research Institution

    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Disease surveillance & mapping

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

A majorty of cantons in Switzerland and the Fürstentum Liechtenstein have introduced the application Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) in the course of 2020 in the frame of control measures against the Covid-19 pandemic. SORMAS allows for a structured management and surveillance of the Cocvid-19 pandemic, namely of infected cases and their contacts. SORMAS has been developed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany as a reaction of the Ebola outbreack in West Africa in 2014. Swiss TPH has planned and implemented in 2020 several training session for users of SORMAS at cantonal level and further assisted the technical configuration of SORMAS to the Swiss context. Further contributions to the French and Italian translation of SORMAS were made