Pandemic Management - Lessons Learned for a More Secure Future
Pandemic Management - Lessons Learned for a More Secure Future

Author(s): Sabahudin Harčević
Subject(s): Politics, Security and defense, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Centar za Sigurnosne Studije
Keywords: BiH; pandemics; management; policy; lessons; 2023;
Summary/Abstract: The research was based on obtaining data from primary and secondary sources. With regard to primary sources of data, requests for free access to information were sent to appropriate institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such an approach sought to remove gaps and ambiguities in the process of obtaining data from secondary sources. From the latter, official reports of international and domestic institutions, scientific and professional articles and online media articles were used. COVID-19 is a respiratory infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 (a virus that, by its characteristics, belongs to coronaviruses) and first appeared at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, in the Chinese province of Hubei. In January 2020, an epidemic first broke out in the People’s Republic of China and shortly spread worldwide. COVID-19 is transmitted when people breathe in air contaminated with droplets and small airborne particles that contain the virus. The risk of inhalation is highest when people are in close contact, but they can also be inhaled at greater distances, especially indoors. By 15 February 2023, 677,980,081[1] cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed worldwide, of which 6,784,081 people have died. At the end of 2020, the first vaccines against COVID-19 were developed, and the first vaccine officially approved by the WHO was Pfizer- -BioNTech[2]. Three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, in most countries of the world the situation had been brought under control and the world had returned to the activities and the way of life which existed before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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