Risk Assessment Report – 05 august 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 05 august 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
August 05, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 05 august 2020
Time Period Covered August 05, 2020 - August 05, 2020
- Worldwide, there have been over 18.6 million reported cases, and more than 701,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of this COVID-19 pandemic in a meeting with its emergency committee. The WHO continues to assess the global risk level of COVID-19 to be very high and warned of the risk of “response fatigue” given the socio-economic pressures on countries. Globally, the USA leads with the highest number of newly reported cases in the past 24 hours (>58,000), followed by India (>54,000), Brazil (>7,700), Philippines (>6,300), and Spain (>5,700). As some economies and societies open up, WHO continues to urge the public to remain vigilant and take precautions to avoid getting COVID-19; while urging countries to increase testing and contact tracing to ensure no cases are missed and ensure appropriate treatment is available.
- World Health Organization (WHO) has published a scientific brief on estimating mortality from COVID-19. The brief discusses the limitations and difficulties in interpreting the case fatality ratio of COVID-19, and potential biases that could arise in ascertaining mortality. Differences in mortality between groups of people and countries are important proxy indicators of relative risk of death that guide policy decisions regarding scarce medical resource allocation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This document is intended to help countries estimate CFR and, if possible, IFR, as appropriately and accurately as possible, while accounting for possible biases in their estimation.
- WHO has published a COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Progress Report. The report highlights the progress made from 1 February to 30 June 2020 under the three objectives outlined in the Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan: scaling up international coordination and support; scaling up country preparedness and response by pillar; and accelerating research and innovation (WHO Situation Report 196)
Risk Assessment Report – 05 august 2020