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Covid-19 Outbreak Operational Update COVID-19 OUTBREAK REPORTING DATE: 12 June 2020 REPORTING TIMEFRAME: 8 May- 7 June OPERATIONAL UPDATE #16 GLIDE: EP-2020-000012-CHN OPERATIONAL TIME FRAME: 31 JAN - 31 MAR 2021 Situation Update National Society Response Useful Links 7,145,539 confirmed cases globally 104 National Societies reporting via public Technical Guidance - Compendium reported to WHO as at 2:04pm CEST, 10 June 2020 COVID-19 Field Reports as submitted on the GO The Red Cross And Red Crescent Movement COVID-19 Global View map shows new cases per population. Platform. Resource Compendium has links to resources and guidance and resource hubs such as • Health Help Desk • Business Continuity Planning Help Desk • Cash Help Desk 102 94 90 • Sustaining Addressing Strengthening Community Engagement Hub Health and Socioeconomic National • Livelihoods Help Desk WASH Impact Societies • IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support GO Platform • National Society Resources and Guidance by a number of topics National Society Field Reports and Emergency pages Funding** can be found on GO platform. The latest WHO sit-reps are here and 450,000,000 CHF Required visualisations at WHO and on GO Platform. Click here for the detailed up-to-date information on the situation, analysis, RCRC Movement actions, documents and additional information available on GO. 1 go.ifrc.org ** Funding gap calculated after factoring-in soft pledges as well as hard pledges. OPERATIONAL UPDATE The Revised Emergency Appeal (28 May 2020) is available here. The Emergency Plans of Actions for COVID-19 operation are available here. Red Cross and Red Crescent activities globally Health and Care The Health and Care team continues to provide technical and coordination support to National Societies and IFRC Regions. This week the IFRC participated in a global technical consultation on contact tracing, which included representatives from Ministries of Health, UN bodies, and other technical experts. The Health and Care team is also supporting the development of consistent community case definitions for COVID-19, recognising that the illness extends beyond respiratory symptoms. The development and validation of a consistent interagency community case definition will support community-based surveillance, in addition to other community-based health activities related to COVID-19. Work is ongoing to support adaptation of expected and ongoing responses to other emergencies to account for the pandemic’s impacts and to reduce the likelihood of transmission in other emergencies. This includes the newly emerged 11th outbreak of Ebola virus disease in DRC, and adaptation of responses to heat waves. The health help desk continues to draw contributions of resources, tools and learning opportunities from National Societies, allowing it to grow as a platform for knowledge management and sharing. Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Coordination: The IFRC in partnership with IFRC, WHO and UNICEF continues to play a leading role in the Collective Risk Communication and Community Engagement to provide coordinated technical support on RCCE as part of the COVID-19. IFRC is actively participating in the several interagency coordination core and sub-groups such as the Low Resource settings where focus has been put on the role that RCCE is playing during the post lockdown and the different contexts and humanitarian profiles. Technical: Thanks to a dedicated IM consultant, work towards interpreting, visualizing and triangulating feedback data from the regions continues and will feed the interagency coordination groups. Two rounds of TOT CEA Webinars were concluded with a total number of 84 participants. Adjusted versions of the online TOT have been implemented in the regions and tailored to National Society level training packages. RCCE team continues to produce tools to guide and orient NS staff and volunteers on the use of masks, support technically on several animation videos to address stigma, and a series of infographics to plan social mobilization and community meetings safely. Livelihoods and Household Economic Security Support for Cash and procurement of Financial Service Providers (FSP) has been agreed with the Cash Remote Helpdesk. Approximately 45 National Societies plan to include cash in their COVID response while only 6 FSP’s are in place, hence there is significant work ahead to support NSs to secure the services they need. The Market Place Setup Guidance has been finalised to support National Societies to advocate for COVID-19 sensitive strategies to support markets to recover and thereby support cash-based approaches. The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) HelpDesk continues to provide remote support to National Societies. The main requests are focused in how to conduct remote livelihoods assessments, how to adjust the ongoing operation to COVID-19 and how to target effectively. Webinars have been conducted providing information about the impact of COVID-19 in people’s food security and livelihoods, potential intervention and services. Several infographics related to livelihoods and food security have been developed. The Livelihood Reference Centre has reached over 12,000 people on Facebook and 18,000 on Linkedin. Migration and Displacement During this reporting period, at the global level, the IFRC and ICRC have produced recommendations on “Reducing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internally displaced people”. The recommendations have been developed based on input provided by some National Societies during a webinar organized by the ICRC and IFRC in April to discuss the risks and challenges facing internally displaced people in relation to COVID-19 and our response to them. The recommendations underscore the Movement commitment to ensuring that IDPs are not left out of public prevention and response activities. The recommendations will be available shortly in Spanish, French and Arabic. At the end of May, joint guidance was released by ICRC and IFRC on the inclusion and protection of migrants in the face of COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Central Asia. The guidance covers the main concerns for migrants, dialogue 2 with authorities and key messages and advice on communication with media. The guidance has been uploaded on to the GO Platform. A series of webinars is planned on RCCE in the context of Migration for European National Societies in response to COVID19, which are planned to start next week. In addition, work has started on the development of a training module on Migration and Risk communication and community engagement. The IFRC is excited to announce a new MOOC on COVID-19 Adapting Child Protection Case Management. The Massive Open Online Course or MOOC is an interagency project co-led by the IFRC Migration and PGI teams, resulting in 4 hours course available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. The course profiles interesting practices from Icelandic Red Cross, Italian Red Cross and Philippines Red Cross on their use of the Virtual Volunteer platform to reach migrants during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The MOOC is due to start on 29 June Protection, Gender, Inclusion (PGI) and Education The PGI and Education team has supported the memberships COVID-19 response through; Global guidance on impacts of COVID- 19 in relation to SGBV, Child Protection, Trafficking in Persons and on Working with older people. And with WVI, activity cards to support wellbeing of children out of school. Substantive contributions on PGI and Education aspects have been provided to other IFRC guidance such as on Fragile, conflict and vulnerable contexts. Support is ongoing to digitise existing RCRC educational materials and has also been provided to WHO on school-related public health measures, INEE-CPHA guidance on schools’ reopening, IASC MHPSS working group; ensuring PGI is integrated into all guidance. Attended by more than 250 participants the webinar series on RCRC education response to COVID-19 addressed Protection, safety and well-being of learners, parents/caregivers, teachers and other personnel; RCRC provision of complementary education opportunities for educational continuity. Several webinars and online support were provided on PGI: RedTalk on issues faced by children, Working with older people, briefing on SGBV and COVID-19, and with partners the IFRC developed key messages for governments on child protection. Global coordination in addressing PGI issues in COVID-19 has been provided; with ICRC and the Movement advisory board on protection such as through joint webinars; through coordination with sectoral colleagues for a common approach to PGI issues in COVID-19; by reviewing and supporting alignment of PGI in regional and country response plans; adapting SGBV implementation plans with 4 NSs in light of COVID-19; analyzing challenges identified by NSs in response to SGBV in the current context, and by establishing support for PGI in COVID-19 such as through collaboration with Finnish RC and Turkish RC. IFRC joined the global COVID-19 Public Health and Social Science Research Working Group on Children, Youth and Schools, and with ICRC; the Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO. National Society Preparedness IFRC is playing an active role in the IASC Emergency response preparedness working group, discussing how to support field partners with the adaptation of their preparedness and readiness for existing risks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. National Society Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) global and regional results trends visualization and lessons learned
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