Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 9 August 2021

Overview

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

• Working with indigenous communities in COVID-19 pandemic responses in the Americas
• Successful and safe hajj season in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Viet Nam receives additional COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
• Sri Lanka receives a large consignment of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX Facility
• Infectious Substance Shipment Training (ISST) for priority countries in Kazakhstan
• Increasing COVID-19 risk messaging to scale-up community knowledge and perceptions in Nigeria
• Solidarity Response Fund initiative on engaging civil society organizations in COVID-19 response at national and local levels
• 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.