COVID-19: 12 Tips for Crisis Management

Biological events can rapidly spread throughout the world. The COVID-19 pandemic once again affirmed that the emergence of infectious agents could occur anytime and anywhere worldwide due to international travels and commercial relationships [1]. The pandemic of COVID-19 showed that despite the advances in medical sciences, the outbreak of unknown diseases is probable at any time [2]. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency, it cannot be resolved simply by medical and preventive measures. In other words, this crisis cannot be overcome without considering and applying the principles of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). This issue might be one of the reasons for the confusion and mismanagement that people witness everywhere. DRRM principles include disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM). DDR reduces the damage caused by natural disasters, and DRM performs management activities to correct and mitigate disaster risk during a systematic process [2].