Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 28 June 2021

Overview

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

• Building critical care capacities for COVID-19 in Iraq
• Building infection prevention control capacity in Azerbaijan
• Supporting South African consortium to establish first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub
• Adapting the global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan 2021 to reinforce the collective response in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Public Health Laboratories knowledge sharing webinars and online learning opportunities in Viet Nam
• 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