Weekly COVID-19 Reports Update

Weekly Epidemiological Update

20 July

• 12% increase in global new cases reported compared to previous week, with over 3.4 million new cases
• Increase in global COVID-19 case weekly incidence, with around 490 000 cases reported each day compared to 400 000 in the previous week
• Almost 57 000 deaths were reported last week, a similar number to the previous week, following a steady decline in the number of deaths for over two months
• Cumulative number of over 190 million cases and more than 4 million deaths reported globally
• Special focus on the release of a WHO COVID-19 detailed surveillance data dashboard, including a downloadable database feature
• Special focus on the phenotypic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 VOCs Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, and updates on the geographic distribution of VOCs

Weekly Operational Update

20 July

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

• Strengthening clinical management of COVID-19 in Ghana
• Receiving 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Viet Nam donated by the United States of America through the COVAX Facility
• COVID-19 readiness and response at Points of Entry in Armenia
• Planning and decentralization in Mumbai, India to fight the second COVID-19 surge
• Receiving 500 000 vaccines in Haiti donated by the United States of America through the COVAX Facility
• Enhancing resilience among parents and children in the Syrian Arab Republic through the “My Hero is You” mental health campaign
• Exploring the use of WHO’s COVID-19 vaccination online learning in countries
• 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.

WHO continues fight against pandemic amid worsening global public health emergency and uneven vaccine rollout

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