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Comment
. 2020 Oct 22;56(4):2003054.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.03054-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

The impact of COVID-19 and the restoration of tuberculosis services in the Western Pacific Region

Chen-Yuan Chiang  1 , Tauhid Islam  2 , Caihong Xu  3 , Thilaka Chinnayah  4 , Anna Marie Celina Garfin  5 , Kalpeshsinh Rahevar  2 , Mario Raviglione  6
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The impact of COVID-19 and the restoration of tuberculosis services in the Western Pacific Region

Chen-Yuan Chiang et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

While COVID-19 has imposed great challenges to national tuberculosis programmes, it has also created opportunities to develop innovative strategies to ensure continuity of TB services and ultimately to strengthen TB care, prevention and control https://bit.ly/3bHDQx0

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: C-Y. Chiang has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: T. Islam has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: Cr. Xu has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: T. Chinnayah has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A.M.C. Garfin has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: K. Rahevar has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Raviglione has nothing to disclose.

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