Context

Creation Context

The case study was originally created by Elburg van Boetzelaer, Annlaug Selstø, Elina Seppälä, Kjetil Berg Veire, Anette Ester, and Pawel Stefanoff from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health based on facts of a real outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The motivation to create a case study was to foster capacity building to improve preparedness plans in small communities.

ECDC transformed the case study online to support as many local municipalities in all EU Member States to use it to build capacity in preparedness to respond to similar emergency situations in a timely and appropriate fashion. (If we decide to translate, we should add here)


Context of application 

The case study is designed to be applied in municipalities that have large numbers of foreign temporary workers, where an outbreak response needs to involve the employers and possibly other municipal services, including public health services. 

Many inter-sectorial aspects of the case study can be generalised to other outbreaks without the challenge of foreign temporary workers. (e.g. hosting a mass-gathering event)


Last modified: Thursday, 3 February 2022, 2:01 PM