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In this regard, the public health emergency management framework has to be extended to
include the SSC infrastructure as well as to incorporate the local stakeholders that appeared to
play a crucial role during the pandemic (Figure 6). The SSC hard infrastructure can be used to
continuously collect data from the local environment (sensors and even text, voice and video
from local media) and contribute to the national public health control centre, together with the
data from the national research labs and hospitals (process step 1.2.4 of Figure 6). This SSC role
can be included in national planning (process step 1.1). The collected data can be processed and
analysed and perform threat analysis at local levels (process step 1.4.1). The SSC infrastructure can
contribute with the release of a public website that will post corresponding information (process
step 2.1.1) as well as support the national surveillance system with activity-based data collection
from sensors, cameras and even media (process step 2.2.2). Activity monitoring, analytics and AI-
based predictions at the local level (process step 2.2.3), either with the use of local control centres
or independently (sewage analysis etc.) can also contribute. Additionally, the SSC infrastructure can
support the submission of notifications to the safety stakeholders (police, hospitals etc.) to engage

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