Arbovirus surveillance staff at the national level prior to COVID-19 outbreak (Q58)

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/ vector control specialists	Support staff
Afghanistan	513	20	30	10	50
Bahrain
Djibouti	2	4	5	3	4
Egypt
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1			1
Iraq
Jordan				0	2
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya	2		4	6
Morocco
Oman	0	4	0	3	5
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia	0	1	3	3	1
Sudan				73
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	100	30	30	30	30
United Arab Emirates
Yemen	333	333	50	78	23

Number of arbovirus surveillance staff needed to ensure adequate capacity (Q59)

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/vector control specialists	Support staff
Afghanistan	68	34	20	20	100
Bahrain
Djibouti	6	7	8	5	5
Egypt
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1	1	1	1	1
Iraq
Jordan	10	3	4	3	3
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya	5	2	10	15	2
Morocco
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Qatar	2	2	2	2	2
Saudi Arabia
Somalia	6	5	5	10
Sudan				10
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	200	60	60	60	60
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

Additional details regarding current and required staffing numbers (Q60)

Country	Response
Afghanistan
Bahrain	the surveillance staff working in the arboviral diseases are the same staff covering the surveillance of other communicable diseases
Djibouti	At the national level, the country has 4 epidemiologists and 4 laboratory technicians and 4 master's degrees in medical entomology for the monitoring of indicators in general.
Egypt
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco	Il n'y a pas un personnel dédié pour ces maladies.
Oman	Q 59: Will be decided after baseline surveillance
Pakistan	Not known.
Palestinian Territory
Qatar	Q58 all categories - not specific for arboviruses
Saudi Arabia	Numbers NA (I don't know) as it belongs to different departments and sectors)
Somalia	The estimation of staff for the management,surveillance and diagnosis of arboviruses may change depending on need
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	402 / 5,000 Translation results Translation result the clinicians are infectiologists in the infectious disease departments, neurology, pediatrics, resuscitation departments who are not only responsible for arboviruses but for all other pathologies, we do not have epidemiologists in all the regional health directorates, but we have trained regional managers in field epidemiology FETP.
United Arab Emirates
Yemen	Q58. Medical doctors in RRTs; epidemiologists in each district; lab technicians at CPHLs; NMCP entomology and vector control staff); support staff eDEWS central staff.