NEOC has been activated on “Standby Mode”, supporting preparedness and response actions since last year under the National COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan.
However, now with community transmission, it has shifted to “Full Activation Mode” to coordinate COVID-19 response actions by supporting the National Disaster Operations Committee (N-DOC) and Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (P-DOC) throughout the nine provinces and Honiara City Council.
The centre has also activated its COVID-19 contingency plan.
NEOC is part of Governments’ overall coordination response mechanism under the country’s disaster management arrangements. For COVID-19, NEOC is the engine room that ensures COVID-19 response intents of the Government are implemented in a coordinated manner.
Source: Press Release