YEMEN COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE MONTHLY REPORT
HUMANITARIAN COUNTRY TEAM NOVEMBER 2020
SITUATION OVERVIEW
In November, 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported, 6 deaths and 18 recoveries, bringing the total number of reported cases to 2,087 with 607 deaths and 1,385 recoveries. Health partners remain concerned that under-reporting continues for various reasons and that the official epi-curve underestimates the extent of COVID-19 in Yemen. Other factors that have had a negative impact on the COVID-19 response include a lack of adaptive behaviour by the population to reduce transmission, severe funding shortages for health workers and personal protective equipment (PPE) and long delays in importing COVID-19 response supplies. Partners continued working towards increasing surveillance; deploying dedicated COVID-19 staff within agencies; tracking the impact of the virus on routine priority health programmes; refining messaging to encourage behavioural change; and boosting intensive care unit (ICU) capacity. Partners have begun to prepare for a second wave of COVID-19, including engaging with excluded and vulnerable groups to keep them safe and supporting essential health facilities to ensure they function throughout winter. The fuel and funding crisis risked exacerbating the COVID-19 and broader humanitarian response.
Number of COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Recoveries in Yemen
COVID-19 Cases by Governorate
Amanat 2 0 Al Asimah Marib Total Reported COVID-19 Cases 4 confirmed 51 confirmed 1 death 10 deaths Sa ada 2 recovered 22 recovered Hadramaut Al a f 9 confirmed Al Maharah Amran 31 deaths 30 recovered 43 confirmed 1 0 Ha ah 11 deaths Reported Reported 32 recovered Recoveries Deaths Al Mah it Shab ah Sana a 143 confirmed COVID-19 Cases by Se and Age Raymah Dhamar 3 deaths 104 recovered Al Hudaydah Al Bayda Ibb confirmed 54 deaths 305 confirmed Al Dhale e Female Male 1 deaths Tai 5 confirmed Socotra 2 4 223 recovered 15 deaths Abyan 24 recovered 292 confirmed 20 confirmed 13 confirmed Lah Aden 34 deaths * Lab confirmed cases of COVID-19 are limited due to testing capacity Reported Cases by Age 41 deaths deaths 235 recovered 23 recovered and thus absolute numbers are more likely a reflection of surveillance 90 recovered artifact and should not be interpreted as severity of transmission in Female Male any particular governorate 60+ 8.6% 19.9% 45 - 59 6.7% 24.2% Number of COVID-19 Cases Cumulative Confirmed cases Deaths Recovered 30 - 44 6.6% 19.9% APRIL 2020 MAY 2020 JUNE 2020 JULY 2020 AUGUST 2020 SEPTEMBER 2020 OCTOBER 2020 NOVEMBER 2020 15 - 29 3.5% 7.6% 1,962 1,966 2,020 2,038 2,043 2,057 2,0 2,067 2,072 2,0 2000 1,734 1,862 1,732 Others 0.5% 2.5% 1,530 1500 1,194 1,162 1,3 5 1000 Reported Deaths by Age 848 500 567 571 584 588 588 597 601 601 604 0 358 313 494 495 529 Female Male 327 319 434 300 108 209 6 7 85 60+ 1 16 81 12.5% 31% 0 2 10 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 1 15 30 45 - 59 8.8% 26.3 %
30 - 44 3.8% 13.8% COVID-19 Funding Status 15 - 29 0 % 3.8%
5 - 14 * Age disaggregation for cases and deaths is based on 3 5 M 3 2 2M 9 304 5M available data to WHO. FUNDING REQUIRED RECEIVED REQUIRED FOR HEALTH 02 COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE MONTHLY REPORT
SUPPRESSION To suppress transmission of the virus, aid agencies continued Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) support. Community volunteers and members of Mother-to-Mother clubs continued interpersonal communication interventions, reaching 4.14 million people through 664,974 house-to-house visits and Mother-to-Mother sessions. Imams and female religious leaders continued to engage with people at gatherings and social events to sensitize them to COVID-19 prevention practices and physical distancing guidelines reaching 1.6 million people. Imams also facilitated sessions in mosques especially during Friday (Jumma) Prayers. About 3.6 million people are reached regularly in over 5,000 mosques with messages on how to protect themselves and their families from COVID-19, and to seek care for the sick. Calls to the Ministry of Public Health and Population hotlines continued with 19,201 people calling in with questions on COVID-19, while about 19,491 calls were received through radio call-in programmes where health experts answered callers’ questions and responded to their concerns on COVID-19.
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1 1 1 1 people reached through engaged through people reached in engaged through mosque students and parents reached mass media house-to-house visits community gatherings and events at mosques through school health women social events facilitators intervention at community level
Number people O 1 1 O 9 reached in November: Community volunteers provide copies of colouring and calls to hotlines and radio people engaged through Safe water: 1 hygiene kits to families and comic books on COVID-19 phone-ins WhatsApp groups/trees members of Mother-to-Mother were distributed to children created and managed by Hygiene Items: clubs in the south. CVs,RLs,M2M members
M M H 1 refugees participated in risk 1 M communication surveys in Ibb, Total Mass Media reach Hajjah & Hudaydah.