Risk Assessment Report – 13 july 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 13 july 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
July 13, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 13 july 2020
Time Period Covered July 13, 2020 - July 13, 2020
- Worldwide, there have been almost 13 million cases, and over 570,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the pandemic has been accelerating. The cumulative number of cases worldwide has doubled in the last six weeks, and today the largest single-day increase has been reported with over 230,370 new infections in the last 24- hours. The previous WHO record for new cases was 228,102 on July 10. In Africa, cases have risen 24% in the past week reaching over 500,000 cases, while infections in Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed 3 million this week. In Africa, the country with the greatest number of reported cases has been South Africa where cases have doubled this week. Over 4,000 health care workers have been infected in South Africa, which is at least half of the 8,000 total health care workers reported to have become infected throughout the African continent.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has published an Emergency Global Supply Chain System (COVID-19) catalogue listing all medical devices, including personal protective equipment, medical equipment, medical consumables, single use devices, and laboratory and test-related devices, which may be requested through the COVID-19 Supply Portal. WHO also surveyed networks of laboratories to map out global animal laboratory capacity around the world to potentially help with accelerating vaccine and therapeutic evaluation (WHO Situation Report 174).
- The catalogue represents an initial prioritized selection of items and are subject to constant reviw. The World Health Organization has urged Indonesia to perform more COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on people suspected to have the illness because it has noted a “substantially high” number of deaths among patients under surveillance (PDP) and people under observation (ODP). As of July 12, the Ministry of Health announced 1,681 new confirmed COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of infections nationwide to 75,699 with 75 new deaths bringing total death toll to 3,606.
Risk Assessment Report – 13 july 2020