Risk Assessment Report – 18 September 2020


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Risk Assessment Report – 18 September 2020


Rapid Risk Assessment

September 18, 2020

Risk Assessment Report – 18 September 2020

Time Period Covered September 18, 2020 - September 18, 2020

  • Worldwide, there have been over 30.2 million cases and more than 948,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
  • According to World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General on September 17, more than 170 countries have joined WHO’s COVAX global vaccine plan to help buy and distribute immunization shots for COVID-19 fairly around the world.
  • Myanmar authorities are advancing to build a field hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear threatens to overwhelm the country's health system. Three hospitals in Yangon, the site of most of the cases and now under a second lockdown, have been repurposed to treat COVID-19 patients and the government is building a field hospital with 500 beds on a football pitch