Risk Assessment Report – 09 September 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 09 September 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
September 09, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 09 September 2020
Time Period Covered September 09, 2020 - September 09, 2020
- Worldwide, there have been over 27.6 million cases and more than 899,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. The World Health Organization is working with China on requirements for international approval of any Chinese COVID-19 vaccine. Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Monday its coronavirus vaccine (CoronaVac) candidate appeared to be safe for older people, according to preliminary results from an early to mid-stage trial, while the immune responses triggered by the vaccine were slightly weaker than younger adults. CoronaVac being tested in Brazil and Indonesia in the final-stage human trials to evaluate whether it is effective and safe enough to obtain regulatory approvals for mass use, has already been given to tens of thousands of people, including about 90% of Sinovac employees and their families, as part of China's emergency inoculation scheme to protect people facing high infection risk.
- Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc speaks at the opening ceremony of the 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Hà Nội on Wednesday (September 9). He called for solidarity among ASEAN members to deal with challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and a complicated geopolitical and economic environment. “2020 will end in just four months while the COVID19 pandemic continues to unfold in a complex manner, and our people and businesses continue to be outstretched by its repercussions,” he said. And to ensure the continuity of the achieved results, PM Phúc suggested ASEAN foreign ministers promote a number of priorities including continuing upholding ASEAN’s solidarity and unity in order to successfully realise the blueprints for the ASEAN Community Vision 2025. He proposed the COVID-19 Response Fund should be well utilized and the Regional Reserve of Medical Supplies should be operationalized so as to raise ASEAN’s response capacity.
- Indonesia surpassed 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (September 8), after consistently detecting record numbers of new infections in the past several weeks. According to government data released on Tuesday afternoon, the country's overall tally is 200,035 after recording 3,046 new cases. Jakarta detected the highest number of COVID-19 with 48,393 cases and 1,317 deaths, followed by East Java with 36,342 cases and 2,608 deaths. Both the central and local governments have insisted on reopening the economy after enforcing large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in several high-risk areas. Data shows that when these restrictions were relaxed, infections started to increase. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reminded his aides to prioritize health and COVID-19 mitigation over restarting economic activities, saying that health was the key to economic recovery.
Risk Assessment Report – 09 September 2020