Weekly COVID-19 Reports Update

Weekly Epidemiological Update

3 August

Globally, weekly cases have been increasing for more than a month, with over 4 million cases reported in the past week. An average of over 570 000 cases were reported each day over the past week as compared to a little over 540 000 cases reported daily the week before. This increasing trend is largely attributed to substantial increases in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific Regions which reported a 37% and 33% increase respectively as compared to the previous week. Overall, the number of deaths reported this week decreased by 8% as compared to the previous week, with over 64 000 deaths reported. However, the Western Pacific Region and the Eastern Mediterranean Region showed a sharp increase in new deaths as compared to the previous week, 48% and 31% respectively. The cumulative number of cases reported globally is now nearly 197 million and the number of cumulative deaths has reached 4.2 million

In this edition, a special focus updates are provided on:

• SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOCs) Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta which includes updates on the geographic distribution of VOCs

Weekly Operational Update

4 August

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

• COVID-19 emergency preparedness and response in Thailand
• Treatment of COVID-19 patients across Yemen
• Facilitating the implementation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants in Ukraine
• More than one million COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Lao People’s Democratic Republic through the COVAX Facility
• Driving COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Ghana’s hard-to-reach communities 
• 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

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