Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 8 February 2022

Overview

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

• Donating SD Biosensor Test Kits to support Belize’s COVID-19 response
• Enhancing risk communication and community engagement activities in Thailand
• Italy joins other European Union Member States to increase pledge of COVID-19 vaccines to Syria
• Integration and expansion: Leveraging influenza systems for the COVID-19 response
• Launching the SocialNet online course on OpenWHO
• Updates on WHO’s financing to support countries on COVID-19 response implementation to suppress transmission, reduce exposure, and protect the vulnerable and save lives
• Progress on a subset of global indicators that demonstrate country and global progress to end the acute phase of the pandemic