Country | COVID-19 insights (up to June 30, 2020) | Highlighted contributions |
United States of America | Total confirmed cases: 2,537,636 Total deaths: 126,203 TC: Community transmission | · Providing basic hygiene, health and pharmaceutical needs from pharmacy (last community-resort), and effectively tackling the life-saving drug-shortage events · Testing COVID-19 in community pharmacies · Giving point-of-care testing services and treatments for common cold, flu and allergy-related symptoms · In many States, they are suggesting tests for diseases and giving treatments to patients with chronic diseases |
United Kingdom | Total confirmed cases: 311,969 Total deaths: 43,575 TC: Community transmission | · Providing basic pharmacy and health supports to community peoples, and ensuring a smooth essential drug-supply during this period of unprecedented medicinal demand · Giving rapid COVID-19 testing service from community pharmacies · Supporting the community health by giving medical advices to patients and by effective patient counseling |
Spain | Total confirmed cases: 248,970 Total deaths: 28,346 TC: Pending | · Providing all-sort of pharmaceutical care to community people under the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) |
New Zealand | Total confirmed cases: 1178 Total deaths: 22 TC: Clusters of cases | · Providing one-stop pharmacy service including home delivery service from the community pharmacies to avoid public gathering · Disseminating information to community people regarding hand-hygiene, personal protection and community transmission of COVID-19 |
Italy | Total confirmed cases: 240,436 Total deaths: 34,744 TC: Community transmission | · Serving community people without hampering the smooth supply of essential medicines · Ensuring pharmaceutical care at every door by developing “home delivery service” which is resisting people to come out under lockdown |
France | Total confirmed cases: 156,930 Total deaths: 29,730 TC: Community transmission | · Beside ensuring the smooth supply of essential medicines, they are increasing awareness among the people regarding social distance · Effectively tackling the crisis moment of basic hygiene, pharmaceuticals and protective equipments |
China | Total confirmed cases: 85,227 Total deaths: 4,648 TC: Clusters of cases | · Being a pharmaceutical care provider, they have established the community pharmacies as a point-of-all medicinal resources, and ensuring patients’ medication safety · Ensuring adequate national stock of essential medicines · Organizing remote pharmacy services to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 |
Canada | Total confirmed cases: 103,250 Total deaths: 8,522 TC: Community transmission | · Ensuring a smooth supply of essential medicine throughout the country · Testing COVID-19 on priority basis · Working as a frontline care provider and increasing awareness on COVID-19 among the community people · In Quebec State, they are extending prescriptions and prescribing certain medications along with doctors for limiting public movements at this pandemic situation |
Australia | Total confirmed cases: 7,767 Total deaths: 104 TC: Clusters of cases | · Playing a pivotal role in the awareness building programs on COVID-19 among the community people · Preparing and dispensing large-volume alcohol-based hand sanitizer · Providing all kind of COVID-19 related information from the community pharmacies as an “central information center” |