Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 12 July 2021

Overview

In this edition of the COVID-19 Weekly Operational Update, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:

• Scaling up COVID-19 vaccination in Africa
• Supporting Malaysia’s COVID-19 response and emergency preparedness
• Enhancing COVID-19 testing – an investment in health
• Biosafety and biosecurity training in Uzbekistan
• Renovation of biosafety laboratories: enabling advancements in Thailand
• Donating portable pulse oximeters to Belize
• 2020 Progress Report of the Incident Management Support Team for COVID-19 in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Using OpenWHO to disseminate pandemic biosafety learning materials in Angola
• Preparing cities for health emergencies from all-hazards risks and WHO Partners Platform teaming up with ECHO to support the scale up and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine doses
• Progress on a subset of indicators from the SPRP 2021 Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
• Updates on WHO’s financing to support countries in SPRP 2021 implementation and provision of critical supplies.