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COVID-19 FHA Decision Support Tool UPDATED 8 MAY 2020 UNCLASSIFIED CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT & HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE WWW.CFE-DMHA.ORG COVID-19 FHA Decision Support Tool UPDATED 8 MAY 2020 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED List of Countries and U.S. Territories in USINDOPACOM AOR Notes: For quick access to each section place cursor over section and press Ctrl + Click Updated text in last 24 hours highlighted in yellow Table of Contents AMERICAN SAMOA .................................................................................................................................................... 3 AUSTRALIA ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 BANGLADESH ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 BHUTAN ................................................................................................................................................................... 11 BRUNEI ..................................................................................................................................................................... 14 CAMBODIA ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 CHINA ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18 COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS (CNMI) ...................................................................... 20 FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA (FSM) ............................................................................................................ 22 FIJI ............................................................................................................................................................................ 24 GUAM ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27 INDIA ........................................................................................................................................................................ 29 INDONESIA ............................................................................................................................................................... 32 JAPAN ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 KIRIBATI ................................................................................................................................................................... 39 LAOS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 41 MALAYSIA ................................................................................................................................................................ 43 MALDIVES ................................................................................................................................................................ 46 MONGOLIA .............................................................................................................................................................. 48 MYANMAR (BURMA) ............................................................................................................................................... 50 NAURU ..................................................................................................................................................................... 56 NEPAL ...................................................................................................................................................................... 58 NEW ZEALAND ......................................................................................................................................................... 62 NORTH KOREA (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA) .............................................................................. 64 PALAU ...................................................................................................................................................................... 67 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ............................................................................................................................................... 69 PREPARED BY CFE-DM 1 UNCLASSIFIED PHILIPPINES ............................................................................................................................................................. 72 REPUBLIC OF MARSHALL ISLANDS (RMI) ................................................................................................................. 76 SAMOA .................................................................................................................................................................... 78 SINGAPORE .............................................................................................................................................................. 81 SOLOMON ISLANDS ................................................................................................................................................. 83 SOUTH KOREA ......................................................................................................................................................... 85 SRI LANKA ................................................................................................................................................................ 87 TAIWAN (REPUBLIC OF CHINA) ............................................................................................................................... 89 THAILAND ................................................................................................................................................................ 91 TIMOR-LESTE ........................................................................................................................................................... 95 TONGA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 97 TUVALU .................................................................................................................................................................... 99 VANUATU .............................................................................................................................................................. 101 VIETNAM................................................................................................................................................................ 105 General Planning Considerations .......................................................................................................................... 108 Product Summary: One of CFE-DM's contributions to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) information sharing efforts is providing this Decision Support Tool (DST) to enhance the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s (USINDOPACOM) planning capabilities for potential Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) in a COVID-19 environment. The process of developing the DST can be described as a successive layering of data until a snapshot of the current state of a country is presented for planning considerations in a complex environment. Each country’s 2-page DST presents information on COVID-19 cases and the affected nation’s response and planning, integrated with humanitarian community response and recent disaster response and risk affecting the country. All countries and U.S. territories in the USINDOPACOM AOR are included. Sections are updated daily. Contact Information: For further information and for how to be added to the distribution list, please contact Dr. Alberto "Mo" Morales, Branch Chief, Applied Research and Information Sharing (ARIS) Branch, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), at: [email protected] Requests for Information: In response to this unprecedented global crisis, the Center is actively engaged in supporting operational response planning and providing relevant and timely information to our civilian and military partners. Please use the form available at the CFE-DM website (https://www.cfe-dmha.org/) to send requests for information to the CFE-DM Director at: [email protected] Requests for information will be responded to within 18 hours. PREPARED BY CFE-DM 2 UNCLASSIFIED AMERICAN SAMOA Return to TOC COVID-19 Total Planning Considerations Affected State Measures/Access Information Resources Case Trend As of 8 May, Recovering from recent measles American Samoa Government (ASG) issued American Samoa COVID: 1 American Samoa has outbreak; ended March 9. a revised ‘Continued Public Health https://www.americansamoa.gov/covid- Emergency and State of Emergency for 19-advisories no confirmed COVID- Public health emergency declared in Covid-19’ on 1 May.3 19 cases. mid-November for measles, sparking a Department of Health (DOH): vaccination campaign.
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