A reporting mechanism is a form of communicable disease surveillance, which may be defined as the SYSTEMATIC REGULAR ASC

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A reporting mechanism is a form of communicable disease
surveillance, which may be defined as the SYSTEMATIC REGULAR
ASCERTAINMENT OF INCIDENCE USING METHODS DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR
PRACTICABILITY, UNIFORMITY, AND FREQUENTLY THEIR RAPIDITY, AND
RATHER THAN BY COMPLETE ACCURACY. Surveillance may use active or
passive methods for gathering epidemiological information and data.
Its main purpose is to detect changes in the trend or distribution
of the disease to initiate investigative or control measures. Its
elements are the establishment of suitable data gathering
mechanisms, central collection and analysis of the data as well as
their publication and dissemination, and initiation of indicated
action. The term surveillance suggests merely the observation of
occurrences, but feedback is both desirable and necessary for
successful operation. Feedback encourages the cooperation of
reporting individuals and informs them about the health status of
the population. If reliance is placed on practising doctors to
report an infectious disease, and on local health, departments to
consolidate the information and forward it promptly to a centre,
the assembled, analysed and interpreted information must be
provided in return. Provide a comprehensive discussion on the
surveillance of COVID-19 in South Africa. This includes from the
onset of this disease and the identification of symptoms to
officially declaring COVID-19 a state of emergency