Corona Virus
COVID-19 is a member of corona viruses which cause animal diseases. This COVID-19 has made its way into human beings, with its symptoms likened to common cold in addition to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The epidemic of COVID-19 quite formidable to reckon with, due to its exponential infection rate, subjecting the entire humanity to grave vulnerability of its attack. According to Walsh (2020), people exceeding 470,000 were confirmed to have been already infected by this disease after recording the death of over 20,000 people globally, just two months after declaration of its outbreak by World Health Organization, terming it to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
In this regard, knowledge management becomes an intentional and orderly integration of personalities concerned in dealing with a particular technology, processes undergone in the initiative to utilize this technology, and the structures that govern such initiative which enhances the utility of a given innovation (Dalkir, 2005). In the COVID-19 pandemic, this integrative coordination is seen by the creation of comprehensive knowledge of the pandemic, sharing the same knowledge among both affected and potential parties, and the right application of this knowledge for the objective realization of the positive outcome. It stretches further by absorbing and recording the experience attained by such confrontation with the health crisis, together with the best applicable practices geared towards successful management of the COVID-19 health disaster in order to master possible re-occurrence of the same or any other similar pandemic. Read more https://uonresearch.org/blog/the-role-of-knowledge-management-in-life-saving-initiatives-case-of-covid-19-pandemic/
