CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS
IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
News & Events
13 Apr 2020
New codes for COVID-19 in ICD-10
To assist countries in collecting timely and accurate data, the World Health Organization's Classifications Team recently updated the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) to include enhanced coding instructions for mortality and morbidity related to Covid-19. The updated classifications include technical instruction on classifying confirmed, suspected and probable cases.
The instructions can be found here.
More News
20 July 2020
The Second Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific was postponed due to the ongoing…
20 July 2020
The Civil Registration Professionals of South Asia (CR8) is a network dedicated to improving the…
20 July 2020
Based on data from 174 countries, the UNICEF report, Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030:…
20 July 2020
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors recently approved a $500 million program to help…
20 July 2020
The ESCAP CRVS team is committed to bringing you relevant and insightful content on www.…
10 June 2020
The University of Melbourne’s Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative is excited to officially launch…
10 June 2020
The current global pandemic is disrupting CRVS systems all over the world, but well-functioning…
10 June 2020
ESCAP is organizing a virtual 2020 Asia-Pacific Statistics Week between 15-19 June. Everyone…
10 June 2020
Back in March, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved USD60 million in financing…
10 June 2020
Unfortunately, the CRVS system of Pakistan does not currently cover the entire population. The…