CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS
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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.
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