Covid: The Outbreak

COVID: The Outbreak is a crisis-management game in which you lead the Global Health Organization (GHO) and work to contain a coronavirus pandemic. You manage funds, staff, medicine and research priorities, making decisions intended to slow infections and save lives.

Managing the outbreak

The virus can mutate in response to your actions. You must account for its transmission abilities, incubation time and drug resistance, and consider whether it may adapt in ways that make a newly researched countermeasure ineffective. You can close borders and quarantine citizens to reduce new infections, or build hospitals and emergency tents to speed the recovery of people already infected.

You issue emergency decrees such as declaring a national emergency, closing borders, requiring vaccination, and closing schools and airports. You also develop research projects and construct hospitals, emergency tents, research institutions, checkpoints, police stations and other buildings. How you handle fake news, stockpiling and people ignoring the threat affects the course of the outbreak.

Information about epidemics

The game provides information about how to behave during an epidemic, what actions to take and how to protect yourself and loved ones. It covers how coronavirus operates, what to do if infected, why quarantines are issued and why a pandemic threatens humanity. Its information is based on data published by the WHO and on material from experts and consultants.