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Practice

• The value of contact tracing and isolation in mitigation of COVID-19 epidemic: findings from outbreak investigation of COVID-19 onboard Nile Cruise Ship, Egypt, March 2020 (15 July, 2022)

  Hossam Hassan, Hanaa Abo ElSood, Basma Abd ElGawad, Reham Kamel, Manal Fahim, Sahar El Shourbagy, Shymaa Showky, Amira Mohsen, Salma Afifi, Alaa Eid
• Building resilient hospitals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (24 June, 2022)

  Merette Khalil, Awad Mataria, Hamid Ravaghi
• WHO’s support for COVID-19 research and knowledge management in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (24 June, 2022)

  Arash Rashidian, Kaiyue Wu, Lubna Al Ariqi, Eman Aly, Ahmed Mandil, Amal Barakat, Chiori Kodama, Mehrnaz Kheirandish, Hatem Nour Eldin Hassan, Henry Victor Doctor, Nilmini Hemachandra, Kamal Fahmy, Phillip Dingwall, Mohamed Nour, Sumithra Krishnamurthy Reddiar
• Evaluation of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in the pandemic response in Iraq: pandemic preparation within a recovering healthcare infrastructure (24 June, 2022)

  S M Moazzem Hossain, Sara Al-Dahir, Riyadh-al Hilfi, Yasir Majeed, Alaa Rahi, Vickneswaran Sabaratnam, Taha Al-Mulla, Omar Hossain, Adam Aldahir, Ryan Norton, Faris Lami
• Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman (24 June, 2022)

  Abdullah Al Manji, Mohamed Tahoun, Franck Chi Amabo, Mohamed Alabri, Lamia Mahmoud, Badar Al Abri, Ahmed Taha Aboushady, Jean Jabbour, Pierre Nabeth, Mahmoud Sadek
• Epidemiology of the first and second waves of COVID-19 pandemic in Djibouti and the vaccination strategy developed for the response (24 June, 2022)

  Mohamed Elhakim, Saleh Banoita Tourab, Fatouma Salem, Reinhilde Van De Weerdt
• Experience of field testing in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic, January to August 2021 (24 June, 2022)

  Zeina Farah, Nada Ghosn, Tatiana Tohme, Hala Abou Naja, Reem Abdel Malak, Hawraa Sweidan, Hamad Hassan