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SUDAN Week 40 COVID-19 Weekly Situation Overview & Response 20 December 2020 CONFIRMED CASES / DEATHS by state (Cumulative)3 NO. OF ACTIVITIES by organization as of 21 October 2020 International boundary 23,316 State boundary IOM 1,059 Undetermined boundary UNHCR 234 Confirmed cases Red Sea Abyei PCA1 Area Save the children 193 ECDO 150 Number of confirmed cases 444 RIVER RED SEA UNFPA 135 NILE Plan International Sudan 39 1,468 13,524 34 574 624 Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Deaths Recovered WHO 23 NORTHERN 156 HOPE 22 HIGHLIGHTS 18,084 NCA 20 WVI 19 12 The Sudan Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) identified the first case of 301 OXFAM COVID-19 in Sudan on 12 March 2020 and as of 20 December, 23,316 people NADA Alazhar 12 12 contracted the virus, including 1,468 who died from the disease. The FMoH, the NORTH DARFUR KHARTOUM EMERGENCY NGO Sudan KASSALA EMERGENCY 12 United Nations and humanitarian partners joined efforts to prevent and respond Khartoum 1,628 TGH 11 By Organization Type: to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. A COVID-19 Country Preparedness NORTH KORDOFAN AJ JAZIRAH World Vision Sudan 11 GEDAREF NORWEGIAN 9 174 7 and Response Plan (CPRP) is currently being implemented by UN agencies, WEST REFUGEE COUNCIL (8.77%) (0.35%) 252 WHITE Italian Agency 7 NGOs and other partners in support of the Sudanese Government-led response. DARFUR 422 Development Cooperation NILE NGO Governmental 45 316 Near East Foundation 7 229 SENNAR CAFOD 6 Prior to the pandemic, Sudan’s health system was already under extreme stress CENTRAL WEST DARFUR GIZ 5 due to decades of underfunding. Now with the economic crisis, the declining 56 KORDOFAN 6 45 IRW 4 413 1,389 value of the local currency, and the ever-increasing inflation rates the country is SOUTH NRC 3 (20.83%) (70.05%) SOUTH 86 KORDOFAN BLUE NILE INGO UN unable to import essential medicines it requires further impacting the health DARFUR EAST ZOA 2 DARFUR system. 25 23 Abyei PCA1 NO. OF ACTIVITIES by state as of 21 October 2020 CONTAINMENT MEASURES AND BORDERS CLOSURE Khartoum 519 International boundary North Darfur 234 State boundary Argin Halfa West Kordofan 206 Undetermined boundary Red Sea NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES / DEATHS bi-weekly West Darfur 182 Abyei PCA1 Area Confirmed cases Deaths Country capital South Kordofan 116 Karb Eltoum International airport Portsudan 2,885 2,846 3,207 3,838 White Nile 102 RED SEA Exit / entry points status2: NORTHERN Sawakin 1,846 Gedaref 77 Open 1,639 East Darfur 77 Partially closed 1,195 RIVER NILE 913 1,053 Red Sea 67 Containment measures 596 744 by state 410 346 13 1 201 189 166 1 341 131 Abyei PCA 60 N. DARFUR KHARTOUM 7 2 25 3 66 117 81 67 118 0 47 0 90 KASSALA 26 51 20 El Tina Awad 58 Khartoum Khartoum South Darfur N. KORDOFAN Kulbus AJ JAZIRAH Allafa 14 - 31 1 - 15 16 - 30 1 - 15 16 - 31 1 - 15 16 - 30 1 - 15 16 - 31 1 - 15 16 - 31 1 - 15 16 - 30 1 - 15 16 - 31 1 - 15 16 - 30 1 - 15 Northern 54 Mar Apr Apr May May Jun Jun Jul Jul Aug Aug Sep Sep Oct Oct Nov Nov Dec Tandulti GEDAREF Central Darfur 50 W. DARFUR Beida WHITE SENNAR C. DARFUR Kassala 36 NILE El Qallabat W. KORDOFAN as of 21 October 2020 Blue Nile 35 Foro Burunga PREPARDNESS AND RESPONSE BLUE NILE S. KORDOFAN 14 S. DARFUR E. DARFUR North Kordofan Um Dukhun Sennar 9 Abyei PCA1 1,983 26 124 2,264 River Nile 9 Agok No. of activities No. of organizations Implementing partners Health care workers trained Aj Jazirah 9 1 Permanent Court of Arbitration, 2 Source: IOM Mobility Restriction Dashboard 19 (Sep 2020), 3 Source: Directorate-General of Emergency and Epidemic Control, FMoH. The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown on the maps and included in the graphics are not warranted to be error free nor do they necessarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Creation date: 20 December 2020 Sources: International boundary (UN cartography), State boundary (CBS, FGC, NIC), River & Crossing border (WFP), Settlements (OCHA) Feedback: [email protected] | www.unocha.org/sudan | www.reliefweb.int | For the latest figures, information and interactive dashboard visit www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/sudan/covid-19.
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