Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 23 August 2021

Overview

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

• Restoring essential health services in Haiti post-earthquake
• Strengthening Infection Prevention Control with the Georgian ambulance service
• Delivering critical health services in Afghanistan
• Lao People’s Democratic Republic receives 616,820 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility
• All-women teams trek miles to vaccinate in Meghalaya, India
• 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.