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COVID-19: WHO EMRO Biweekly Situation Report #29 - Epi Weeks 3-4 (17-30 January 2021)

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Key Highlights
• As of 30 January 2021, the Eastern Mediterranean Region reported over 5.67M confirmed COVID-19 cases and nearly 134,336 deaths.
• During this reporting period, the Region reported a decrease of 4.7% in cases when compared to the previous week. Similarly, a 1.7% decrease was also observed for associated deaths reported from Region.
• Eight countries surpassed the Regional Case Fatality Rate of 2.4%, Yemen (29.0%), Syrian Arab Republic (6.5%), Sudan (6.1%), Egypt (5.6%), Afghanistan (4.4%), Islamic Republic of Iran (4.1%), Tunisia (3.2%) and Somalia (2.7%).
• After the decline observed during late November and early December, there was an increase in reported cases during the first two weeks of January and afterwards a continuous decline has been noted. The reported deaths were showing a continuous decline during December 2020 but in 2021, there was some stabilization observed for the first four weeks.
• Serious public health and social measures, including introduction of vaccines, are implemented to tackle increases of cases.
• To date, 10 EMR countries and territory are affected by the UK variant.
• Targeting high-risk groups, vaccination against COVID-19 was kicked off in 9 EMR countries.